| The Magician's Wife | |
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| Author(s) | Brian Moore |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Publication date | 1997 |
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| Pages | 215 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0747537186 ISBN 9780747537182 |
| OCLC Number | 247666817 |
The Magician's Wife, published in 1997, was the last novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore. Set in 1856, it tells the story of a famous French magician despatched to war-torn Algeria by Emperor Napoleon III. Reviewing the book for the New York Times, Thomas Mallon said: "Combining actual and invented figures requires a particular sleight of hand, and in The Magician's Wife Moore accomplishes this mingling without giving any glimpse of a false bottom or secret compartment... The Magician's Wife, combining so many of Moore's longtime preoccupations and themes, proves to be one of his neatest tricks yet."[1]
Enotes: The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore
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