The Magician's Assistant. Uncorrected Proof Copy.

Patchett, Ann

ISBN 10: 1857028139 / ISBN 13: 9781857028133

Verlag: Fourth Estate, London, 1998

Beschreibung

380 pages. Slight wear & slight soiling to spine, covers & corners. Light creasing to spine. ; Octavo (standard book size).

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 36413

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Magician's Assistant. Uncorrected Proof Copy.
• Verlag: Fourth Estate, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1857028139
• ISBN-13: 9781857028133
• Einband: Softcover (Perfect Bound)
• Auflage: Publishers Proof Copy.
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket

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Inhaltsangabe

Third – and breakthrough – novel by an acclaimed American writer with an enchanting, quirky voice. The Magician’s Assistant is at once a love story and a brilliant portrayal of reinvention about a magician who dies leaving his assistant/wife to discover he has lied about his past.

A Magician (with one memorable appearance on the Johnny Carson Show to his credit) takes the name Parsifal. He is gay. He has a Vietnamese lover, Phan. When Phan dies of AIDS, Parsifal marries the woman who has always adored him and who has lived with them both, his assistant Sabine.

Then Parsifal himself dies in California, suddenly and shockingly, of an aneurysm. Parsifal always said that he had no living family and that he came from wealthy upscale Connecticut stock. The reality is very different, as Sabine learns from his lawyer. He came from a poor Nebraska family and they are very much alive. Indeed his mother and sister are on their way to California to meet Sabine, the daughter- and sister-in-law they know nothing about. It is bad that her husband has died. What Sabine must now cope with is coming to terms with his horrific past and the reason he divorced himself from his family and roots.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ann Patchett is originally from Los Angeles and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of two earlier novels, The Patron Saint of Liars and Taft. She lives in Nashville and is the Tennessee Williams Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of the South