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Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part40.utf8:263706472:2405
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 02405cam a2200349 i 4500
001 2013046178
003 DLC
005 20141001081808.0
008 131213s2014 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2013046178
020 $a9781594631962 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR9199.3.G265$bC66 2014
082 00 $a813/.54$223
084 $aFIC019000$aFIC014000$aFIC030000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aGalloway, Steven,$d1975-
245 14 $aThe confabulist :$ba novel /$cSteven Galloway.
264 1 $aNew York :$bRiverhead Books, A member of Penguin Group (USA),$c2014.
300 $a304 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a" From the author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, an exciting new novel that uses the life and sudden death of Harry Houdini to weave a tale of magic, intrigue, and illusion. What is real and what is an illusion? Can you trust your memory to provide an accurate record of what has happened in your life? The Confabulist is a clever , entertaining, and suspenseful narrative that weaves together the rise and fall of world-famous Harry Houdini with the surprising story of Martin Strauss, an unknown man whose fate seems forever tied to the magician's in a way that will ultimately startle and amaze. It is at once a vivid portrait of an alluring, late-nineteenth/early-twentieth-century world; a front-row seat to a world-class magic show; and an unexpected love story. In the end, the book is a kind of magic trick in itself: there is much more to Martin than meets the eye. Historically rich and ingeniously told, this is a novel about magic and memory, truth and illusion, and the ways that love, hope, grief, and imagination can-for better or for worse-alter what we perceive and believe"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"From the author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, an exciting new novel that uses the life and sudden death of Harry Houdini to weave a tale of magic, intrigue, and illusion"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aHoudini, Harry,$d1874-1926$vFiction.
650 0 $aMagicians$vFiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Historical.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Suspense.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aSuspense fiction.$2gsafd