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Award-winning writer Paul Theroux tells a bewitching tale of circus magic and hypnotism which seems to hide a more sinister objective in his ...Show synopsisAward-winning writer Paul Theroux tells a bewitching tale of circus magic and hypnotism which seems to hide a more sinister objective in his exquisite novel "Millroy the Magician". Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina walks into the tent at the County Fair and finds her life transformed. Fixing her with her hypnotic gaze, "Millroy the Magician" performs astonishing miracles. When she is later magicked into his trailer and Millroy promised to train her as his assistant, Jilly feels safe for the first time her her short life. But Millroy is more than a mere stage-show magician. A vegetarian and health fanatic, a possessor of healing and hypnotic powers, Millroy is on a mission to change the eating habits og an entire nation. And through Jilly he has found the strength to preach his evangelical message. With Millroy's messianic fervour ever growing, Jilly begins to have doubts - but Millroy knows that without Jilly there will be no magic..."Brilliantly done. Theroux's best book for a very long time". (Jonathan Raban, "The Times Literary Supplement"). "Fresh and unexpected...among Theroux's best". (Philip Hensher, "Guardian"). "Magical". ("Daily Telegraph"). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, "My Other Life", "The Collected Stories", "My Secret History", "The Lower River", "The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro", "A Dead Hand", "The Elephanta Suite", "Saint Jack", "The Consul's File", "The Family Arsenal", "The Mosquito Coast", and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic "The Great Railway Bazaar" are available from Penguin.Hide synopsis
Millroy the Magician (Penguin Books Ltd) – Paperback (1994)
by
Paul Theroux
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Paperback, Penguin Books Ltd 1994
Open market ed.
448 pages
ISBN: 0140159770 ISBN-13: 9780140159776
The story of a young girl following her meeting with Millroy the magician at a small local circus. He disguises her as a boy and takes her as his assistant on his travels. Gradually, he becomes a messianic figure - a man who can conjure rats out of nowhere, but whose obsession is with America.The story of a young girl following her meeting with Millroy the magician at a small local circus. He disguises her as a boy and takes her as his assistant on his travels. Gradually, he becomes a messianic figure - a man who can conjure rats out of nowhere, but whose obsession is with America.Hide
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In the era when politics and religion in American are so amplified through the voices of the pastor's like Reverend Wright and Pat Robertson this novel re-defines true faith and the meaning of human compassion. While at times bordering on the Taboo, Millroy the Magician is truly one of the overlooked ...
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