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In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors. From the quiet of a rural forest to the rhythms of rock and roll, The Quick-Change Artist is at once whimsical and hard-edged, dizzying in its matter-of-fact delivery of the fantastic. Romance, a sense of place and belonging, and the supernatural--especially in the lives of children coming of age--offer windows into worlds beyond the ordinary throughout The Quick-Change Artist. In the title story, a young chambermaid is in love with a foreign magician who performs at the hotel where she works. In "Heaven," set during the 1918 flu epidemic, a struggling mother and son rely on the support of their fortune-telling plow horse. The narrator of "Jane's Hat" recalls a childhood enlivened by an unusual school principal and a friend who starts finding beauty everywhere. Horses and the people who love them, wanderers and those who feed them, creatures that disappear and those who search for them: these are stories with a constant heart.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: Quick-Change Artist
• Subtitle: Stories
• Author: Cary Holladay
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9780804010931
• ISBN: 0804010935
• ID: 04925139
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Weight: 381 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 150 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. September 2006

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