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100 1 $aPatchett, Ann.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91108359
245 14 $aThe magician's assistant /$cAnn Patchett.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarcourt Brace,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $a359 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aWhat is to become of a magician's assistant without her magician? This is the question Sabine asks herself after the death of Parsifal, the magician she worked with for more than twenty years and her husband for only a few months. Parsifal loved men, especially Phan, and though Sabine loved Parsifal, she contented herself with his friendship. Now Parsifal and Phan are both gone, and Sabine is left with full responsibility for their possessions and their histories.
520 8 $aAlways the assistant, her life is still defined by service to Parsifal.
520 8 $aBut in the world of illusion Sabine has occupied for her entire life, things are rarely what they seem. According to Parsifal, he had no living relatives. Now, with his death, comes the news that he has a mother and two sisters living in Alliance, Nebraska. Inevitably, the strangers will meet and Sabine will be carried away from her beloved Los Angeles to seek the truth of Parsifal's past in the bitterly windswept steppes of Nebraska in winter.
520 8 $aIt is here that Sabine will learn the truth about Parsifal's father, which lies at the heart of his son's abandonment of his family and of his identity. As the members of Parsifal's family turn to Sabine for help, she realizes that she is something of a magician herself. In this newfound strength Sabine may at last find the kind of love she had always been denied.
852 00 $bglx$hPS3566.A7756$iM34 1997
852 00 $bbar$hPS3566.A7756$iM34 1997