The confabulist
By: Steven Galloway
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780307400857
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Romans, nouvelles; Fiction
Description: The Confabulist weaves together the life, loves and murder of the world's greatest magician, Harry Houdini, with the story of the man who killed him (twice): Martin Strauss, an everyday man whose fate was tied to the magician's in unforeseen ways. A cast of memorable characters spins around Houdini's celebrity-driven life, as they did in his time: from the Romanov family soon to be assassinated, to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the powerful heads of Scotland Yard, and the Spiritualists who would use whoever they could to establish their religion. A brilliant novel about fame and ambition, reality and illusion, and the ways that love, grief and imagination can alter what we perceive and believe.
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