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Felony Juggler Limited Edition Preorder
This limited edition preorder package includes a copy of Felony Juggler, a Giclee print—both autographed by Penn Jillette—and three custom juggling balls.
This page is for the LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE. To order a standalone copy of the book, follow this link.
All preorders will ship on or before May 6, 2025.
Description
THIS PAGE IS FOR THE LIMITED EDITION PREORDER OF FELONY JUGGLER with the EXCLUSIVE autographed Giclee print and custom imprinted juggling balls.
Click [HERE] to purchase a regular edition of the book.
The limited edition package includes:
- A copy of FELONY JUGGLER autographed by Penn Jillette
- A single 11″ x 8.5″ autographed Giclee print that features two 1970s era photos depicting a young Penn Jillette from his street performing days. The novel Felony Juggler begins much as Penn’s life began, as a roving performer in city squares and Renaissance Fair(e)s, and these are photographs taken during that time. The photos are printed on 308 gsm 100% Cotton Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Paper. Giclee is a specialized art printing/spraying technique that uses an expanded color range of archival ink and paper resulting in highly detailed and visually rich prints.
- Three custom imprinted juggling balls
Please Note:
- All preorders will ship on or before May 6, 2025.
- All domestic orders will ship via UPS ground unless you select a more expensive expedited shipping option.
- For all orders outside the US, including Canada, please be sure to select your preferred INTERNATIONAL shipping method. International orders placed with domestic shipping will be canceled.
- Please email info@akashicbooks.com if you have any questions about your order.
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- Autographed Book
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- Autographed Giclee Print
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- 3 Custom Juggling Balls
About Felony Juggler
In the early 1970s, Poe—a quick-witted young juggler from rural Massachusetts—abandons the talent shows of his childhood in favor of a nomadic life. He hops trains, hitchhikes, lives on the streets, sleeps rough, and juggles to feed himself. A few years before, he would have been a hobo; a few decades later, he would have been homeless; but in 1973, he is just a street-juggling hippie.
After roaming the country for a few years, Poe settles in Philadelphia and masters his street act before ever-growing crowds. In time, he runs all the busking around South Street like the don of a street-performing mafia. But his talent at manipulating crowds attracts the attention of a criminal organization who convince him to provide a diversion during a bank heist for a payday far greater than the coins he collects in his hat. Things go south, an innocent bystander is killed, and this peace-love talking hippie is now a felony murderer.
He splits town and goes into hiding, but he can’t resist the lure of the crowd, and resurfaces under a pseudonym in Hibbing, Minnesota, drawing large crowds as a regular performer at a Renaissance Fair(e). Unfortunately, his notoriety outs him to the criminal organization who believes he took something of importance from them during the heist. Using all of the wit and misdirection that has made him the best street performer anyone has ever seen, Poe must outsmart and outmaneuver them in order to return to the peaceful life of juggling.
Felony Juggler is an accurate depiction of the streets and street performing in the 1970s, told with the excursive and a-little-too-honest style of Penn Jillette—who was, just coincidently, in his own words, a street juggler and carny trash in the 1970s. Like his previous novel Random, Jillette’s intellectual curiosity, twisting morality, and honed stagecraft fuel a madcap narrative brimming with his renowned humor.
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Author
PENN JILLETTE is a cultural phenomenon as a solo personality and as half of the world-famous Emmy Award–winning magic duo Penn & Teller, whose live show spent years on Broadway and is now the longest-running headlining show in Las Vegas. The pair have their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Jillette cohosted the Showtime series Penn & Teller: Bullshit! which was nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards and won him a Writers Guild Award. He currently cohosts the CW Network competition series Penn & Teller: Fool Us! His weekly podcast, Penn’s Sunday School, was the number one downloaded podcast on iTunes during its debut week and was named by iTunes as Best New Comedy Podcast. He is the author of numerous books, including the nonfiction New York Times best-selling books Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales and God No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales; the novel Sock; and the essay collection Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday! He is the author of Random.