The Conjurer's Boy - Softcover

Raleigh, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0983321663 ISBN 13: 9780983321668

Verlag: Harvard Square Editions, 2012

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The Conjuror's Boy is the saga of Thomas Faye, a fatherless boy who enters a junk shop on a gray Chicago day in 1962 and is forever changed by the two men he meets there. Arthur Farrell, the proprietor, is a sometime-magician,raconteur, wanderer, a wounded veteran of the carnage at the Somme, who can heal - and perhaps far more - with the mere touch of his hand. His belligerent friend Meyer, a seemingly indestructible survivor of the fall of the Warsaw Ghetto, lives on the street, a magnet for trouble and violence. Under the influence of these two mysterious men Thomas comes to see the world in ways he could never have imagined. As his own travels take him to Vietnam and the far corners of America, he adopts one persona after another: drifter, soldier, carny worker, detective, lover. Through it all, three people hover at the edge of his existence: Farrell, Meyer, and a troubled girl. As he notes the troubling changes in his own abilities, he begins to understand why fate sent him into the conjuror's shop that day in 1962. Michael Raleigh is the author of seven previous novels, including IN THE CASTLE OF THE FLYNNS. He has received the Eugene Izzi award for crime fiction and four Illinois Arts Council awards for fiction. He teaches writing at DePaul University and lives in Chicago with his wife Katherine and his three children.

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Michael Raleigh is the author of ten novels. He grew up on the north side of Chicago, near the setting of MURDER IN THE SUMMER OF LOVE.He is a graduate of DePaul University, and received his Master's from Michigan State University.Some of his early short stories and poetry appeared in such literary magazines as the Southern Humanities Review and the Kansas Quarterly. He also received four Illinois Arts Council grants for fiction writing.Michael has been a bank teller, a bartender, a grant writer for the Salvation Army, an office manager, a microfiche technician, and a punch press operator. He currently teaches in the Freshman Writing Program at DePaul University, and he writes. Quite a lot.He has been married for 39 years to his wife Katherine, and they have three children

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard Square Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0983321663
• ISBN 13: 9780983321668
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 472
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