![]() ![]() Historically rich and ingeniously told, this is a novel about magic and memory, truth and illusion, and the ways that love, hope, grief, and imagination can - for better or for worse - alter what we perceive and believe. In the end, the book is a kind of magic trick in itself: there is much more to Martin than meets the eye. ![]() ![]() It is at once a vivid portrait of an alluring, late-nineteenth/early-twentieth-century world a front-row seat to a world-class magic show and an unexpected love story. The Confabulist is a clever, entertaining, and suspenseful narrative that weaves together the rise and fall of world-famous Harry Houdini with the surprising story of Martin Strauss, an unknown man whose fate seems forever tied to the magician's in a way that will ultimately startle and amaze. Magic, as Martin Strauss, the narrator of Steven Galloway’s novel The Confabulist, tells it, has four elements: An effect, which is one element, is achieved by way of the. What is real and what is an illusion? Can you trust your memory to provide an accurate record of what has happened in your life? The Confabulist is a clever, entertaining, and suspenseful narrative that weaves together the rise and fall of world-famous Harry Houdini with the surprising story of Martin Strauss, an unknown man whose fate seems forever tied to the magician's in a way that will ultimately startle and amaze. From the author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, an exciting new novel that uses the life and sudden death of Harry Houdini to weave a tale of magic, intrigue, and illusion. ![]()
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