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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 9781428137332 Format: Unabridged ISBN: 1428137335 Label: Recorded Books Manufacturer: Recorded Books Number Of Items: 9 Publication Date: 2007-07 Publisher: Recorded Books Studio: Recorded Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Henry Walker was once a world-class magician, performing to sold-out shows in New York. But now he has been reduced to joining Musgrove's Chinese Circus (which at no point in its tour of the deep South has ever included a single Chinese person) as the shambling Negro Magician, whose dark black skin and electric green eyes bewitch most audiences. But one balmy Mississippi night in 1954, Henry disappears in the company of three rowdy white teens and is never seen again. Wallace pieces together Henry's incredible vagabond life – from a deal with a bone-white devil known only as Mr. Sebastian, to the heartrending loss of his sister Hannah – and creates an enchanting tale of love, loss, identity, and the limitation of magic. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A multi-layered tale where the truth becomes a bit too elusive.Sometimes a good writer can become a bit precious when they tell a story with a number of different narrators. This is the approach Wallace uses here and while it often fascinates, it also frustrates. The reader can admire his talent, but that admiration is blunted by the loss of clarity it brings. I found myself getting annoyed rather than being intrigued. There is a lot to like here, an intriguing plot, and an honest examination of the racism that has plagued America, but I did find myself less ... Read More Rating:  - the magic failed me....I have never read any Wallace books before and expected much more from him. The characters were indeed interesting, and the plot moved along at a good clip. I usually don't like novels where the story is told from the point of view of many different characters. In this novel, however, that narrative structure worked well. What I didn't like was the way Mr. Wallace abandoned the reader at the end of the story, without bothering to tie up even a few of the many threads he had woven. Like the magician ... Read More Rating:  - captivating, well crafted, frustratingI've given this book four stars because it is beautifully written and creatively told through a series of narrators who each bring his/her own perspective on the truths about the life of the main character, Henry Wallace, the "negro" magician. The reader is drawn in from the get go and follows a path of anticipation that the next page will lead to something even more astounding than the one before. The author delivers. I did genuinely enjoy the experience of reading this book in part because ... Read More Rating:  - Imaginative modern fableDaniel Wallace has struck gold again with "Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Musician." The story of Henry Walker, once one of the world's greatest musicians through a deal with the devil--or so we are told--is a magical tale that shifts in time, place and storyteller. Whose truth should we believe? Wallace draws vivid characters and places that linger in the mind's eye of the reader. It is no accident that Big Fish made a wonderful film and this one has the same cinematic scope of the imagination. This is not ... Read More Rating: - Let the Show BeginWhoever stated that this should be a movie gets my vote. This is an entirely entertaining story with those twists that keep the reader guessing. The fantasy and magic and possibilities of fate meet in an intersection of the real and the surreal. Magic offers people possibilities - possibilities that are not available in the darkness and inhumanity of the lives of many. I found this to be a page turner with some passages that were absolutely riviting. Not only entertaining, but the underlying messages ... Read More 
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