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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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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Plný název: Quick-Change Artist
• Podnázev: Stories
• Autor: Cary Holladay
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 216
• EAN: 9780804010924
• ISBN: 0804010927
• ID: 04925138
• Nakladatelství: Ohio University Press
• Hmotnost: 386 g
• Rozměry: 210 × 133 × 20 mm
• Datum vydání: 30. September 2006

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