The Magician’s Assistant: The Sunday Times best selling author of The Dutch House and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction
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The Magician’s Assistant: The Sunday Times best selling author of The Dutch House and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction
He held the restaurant’s menu in front of him as he spoke, blocking the reporter’s line of sight. He lifted the menu from the table. In the space between them sat a large block of ice. Mackenzie began to cry. “I deceived you,” Jay responded while she sobbed. “It’s what I do for a living.” Mackenzie later recalled the event: “It’s a moment I’ll neve
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Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
That life—whatever else it is—is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes an
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