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The Land of Laughs

A Novel

By Jonathan Carroll

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| Paperback | 9780312873110

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Have you ever loved a magical book above all others? Have you ever wished the magic were real? Welcome to The Land of Laughs. A novel about how terrifying that would be.Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure son of a film star, doesn't know who he is or what he wants--in life, in love, or in his relatioContinue

Have you ever loved a magical book above all others? Have you ever wished the magic were real? Welcome to The Land of Laughs. A novel about how terrifying that would be.Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure son of a film star, doesn't know who he is or what he wants--in life, in love, or in his relationship with the strange and intense Saxony Gardner. What he knows is that in his whole life nothing has touched him so deeply as the novels of Marshall France, a reclusive author of fabulous children's tales who died at forty-four.Now Thomas and Saxony have come to France's hometown, the dreamy Midwestern town of Galen, Missouri, to write France's biography. Warned in advance that France's family may oppose them, they're surprised to find France's daughter warmly welcoming instead. But slowly they begin to see that something fantastic and horrible is happening. The magic of Marshall France has extended far beyond the printed page....leaving them with a terrifying task to undertake.

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  • The Land of Laughs

    , Carroll deals with the writer's power to breathe "life" into his characters; with The Wooden Sea, he tackles how all our prior selves and personas interact with one another. So why is it that I can't give either of these books a truly ringing endor ... (read full critics)

    austinchronicle published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 256 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0312873115
  • ISBN-13: 9780312873110
  • Publisher: Orb Books
  • Pub date: Feb 10, 2001
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Unbound and Others
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