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ISBN-10: 1564781798
ISBN-13: 9781564781796
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: 04/05/2014
Dimensions: 8.47" L, 5.54" W, 0.71" H

The Barnum Museum

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Overview

“The Barnum Museum” is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of stories. Within its pages, note such exhibits as: a study of the strategies used by the participants in the game of “Clue”; a dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman, and loses her to an imaginary man; and a legendary magician so skilled at sleight-of-hand that he is pursued by police for the crime of erasing the line between the real and the conjured. Ingeniously written, each exhibit in “The Barnum Museum”–including the story upon which the movie “The Illusionist” was based–will compel you to continue reading, luring you to the next. Originally published by Poseidon Press in 1990, Dalkey Archive Press in 2007, now available again.

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His true strength is magic realism. . . . Brilliant parodies, pastiches, and comments on Alice in Wonderland, Sinbad, and T. S. Eliot show how this gifted craftsman can stretch the boundaries of the form.
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Details

ISBN-10: 1564781798
ISBN-13: 9781564781796
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: 04/05/2014
Dimensions: 8.47" L, 5.54" W, 0.71" H
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