THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

A college girl, travelling late at night on a crowded train, finds a seat across from two grotesques, a zombielike man, deaf and dumb, and a freakish-looking little woman with an oversized head and a rouge-smeared face.  The two travel from one southern town to another and perform a kind of carnival show, in which the man, who goes by the name Lazarus, is buried alive and then resurrected.  

Clarke/Capote