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The Last Magician

A Novel

By Janette Turner Hospital

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| Paperback | 9780393325270

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The Last Magician is about power and betrayal, sexual obsession and social ostracism. At its center is Lucy, a good girl and a whore, whose nights are spent in a kaleidoscope of identities as she dons the masks her customers demand. Charlie is a photographer, filmmaker, voyeur, and the last mContinue

The Last Magician is about power and betrayal, sexual obsession and social ostracism. At its center is Lucy, a good girl and a whore, whose nights are spent in a kaleidoscope of identities as she dons the masks her customers demand. Charlie is a photographer, filmmaker, voyeur, and the last magician—monitoring Lucy, piecing together the splinters of evidence surrounding the death of a child and a murder that happened half a lifetime ago. A New York Times Notable Book. Reading group guide included.

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  • The Last Magician

    The Last Magician Janette Turner Hospital W.W. Norton Paperback 320 pages September 2003 One of the central themes in The Last Magician is that the relationship between a photograph and its viewer is that of a seduction; the image beckons and entices ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

  • Sydney’s Inferno

    Mess is one of the distinguishing features of Janette Turner Hospital’s writing, but also one of its abiding themes: and part of the reader’s difficulty has always been to decide how much of the mess is intention, and how much miscalculation. The cha ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 320 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 039332527X
  • ISBN-13: 9780393325270
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Pub date: Sep 01, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover and Others
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