The Flimflam Man
On a scorching July day in 1950, a fabulous fat man drives into Wetumka, Oklahoma. F. Bam Morrison is selling tickets to Bohn's United Circus Shows, and the townspeople are buying — all, that is, except ol' man Swank, who says F. Bam Morrison is a two-faced weasel. Smitten with Morrison, ten-year-old Bobbie Jo Hailey — and mean Clara Jean Knox, whom she befriends — unwittingly joins the effort to bamboozle Wetumka. When Bobbie Jo realizes her mistake, Morrison is on his way out of town, leaving her disappointed but intact — and greatly enriched by her relationship with the flimflam man.
Lovingly illustrated by Eileen Christelow, Darleen Bailey Beard's delightful story is based on a real episode in Wetumka's history, still celebrated annually as Sucker Day!
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 96
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-374-42345-2
- EAN
- 9780374423452
- Release date
- 2003
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