Haunted by his past, a world-famous avant-garde photographer travels to Sydney to search for Cat, one of three children who conspired to pull a prank that ended in the death of another child. Reprint.
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Set in the rain forest near Brisbane and in the city of Sydney, Hospital's mesmerizing study of the effects of a dark secret on the people who must live with it is a prime example of the storyteller's magical art.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This work is complex and disturbing, ultimately grappling with the darkest side of love. Readers who stick with her through the first slow pages will find themselves enmeshed in a chilling drama of personalities revealed through innuendo, reminiscence, and memory. Hospital pastes together her story like a photographic collage. The effect is disjointed and startling, requiring the reader to piece together the narrative, to make connections and find meaning. In barest outline, here are the lives of four people who share an ugly secret, a secret whose power becomes the driving force in each life. Charlie, a photographer, says, "Photographs beckon . Photographs seduce." So too this novel. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/1/92.
-Linda L. Rome, Middlefield P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
-Linda L. Rome, Middlefield P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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If you can read this you can read anything.,
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This review is from: The last magician (Hardcover)
The prose and plot of this story are by far the most difficult of any of hers. It took me 3 tries to get through it but was well worth the effort as usual. Take it someplace where you will have lots of time and relaxation to concentrate. As with all her stuff you'll feel disturbed and unsettled afterwards. Then you'll take it too your friends and say "just stick with it"
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One of my favorite books,
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I bought this book as a mass market paperback - I am not even sure why it was in the bookstore, since I'd never heard of the author before - and have read it at least a dozen times. A few other reviewers said it was confusing, but I found it fascinating. The author presents the story in pieces and readers have to put it together for themselves - that's why it's worth at least a second reading. Also, the book is really more magic-realism than mystery, and people who want a unambiguous ending probably won't like it, as the loose ends in this book trail past the finale. Very much worth reading if you enjoy puzzles and ambiguity.
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Disturbingly emotional, clings to ones mind...,
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This review is from: The last magician (Hardcover)
When I finished this book, I was plagues for weeks afterword by its haunting feeling and amazingly real characters. Thats something that impresses me about Hospital, she writes with such feeling, the characters just would not leave my mind. Sometimes, however, the emotion overtook the evolution of plot, and I must say I was disappointed by the ending. But if you give this one time and are open to it, it will take you on a trip. Masterful prose.
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In the middle of the journey, I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
railway game, milfoil stalks, last magician, short spiky hair, sugar doughnuts, overhead bridge, railway cutting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Oswell, Cedar Creek, Robinson Gray, New York, Robbie Gray, Catherine Reed, Sonny Blue, Old Fury, King Bluey, Charlie's Place, The Shaky Landing, Wilston Heights, Brunswick Street, Chuang Tzu, Charlie Chink, King's Cross, Monsieur Vatel, Charlie's Inferno, Grammar School, Newmarket Road, Roslyn Gray, The Shamrock, Gil Brennan, Charlie Chang, New Farm New!
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In the middle of the journey, I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
railway game, milfoil stalks, last magician, short spiky hair, sugar doughnuts, overhead bridge, railway cutting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Oswell, Cedar Creek, Robinson Gray, New York, Robbie Gray, Catherine Reed, Sonny Blue, Old Fury, King Bluey, Charlie's Place, The Shaky Landing, Wilston Heights, Brunswick Street, Chuang Tzu, Charlie Chink, King's Cross, Monsieur Vatel, Charlie's Inferno, Grammar School, Newmarket Road, Roslyn Gray, The Shamrock, Gil Brennan, Charlie Chang, New Farm New!
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- What is it? by Rose Williams on page 34, and page 37
- Ivory Swing: 2 by Janette Turner Hospital in Front Matter
- Collected Stories by Janette Turner Hospital in Front Matter
- Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Wordsworth Collection) by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer on page 125
- My Last Duchess and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Browning on page 10
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- Due Preparations for the Plague: A Novel by Janette Turner Hospital in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Postcolonial Postmortems (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft S.) by Susanne Muhleisen (Editor) Christine Matzke (Editor) on page 251, and Back Matter
- Proteus: The Language Of Metamorphosis (Studies in European Cultural Transition) by Carla Dente on page 41, and page 263
- Damaged Angels: An Adoptive Mothers Struggle to Understand the Tragic Toll of Alcohol in Pregnancy by Bonnie Buxton on page 1, and Back Matter
- Lonely Planet Sydney Condensed (Lonely Planet Sydney Encounter) by Nikki Hall on page 41
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