The Quick-Change Artist - Stories (Paperback)

In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors. From the quiet of a rural forest to the rhythms of rock and roll, The Quick-Change Artist is at once whimsical and hard-edged, dizzying in its matter-of-fact delivery of the fantastic. Romance, a sense of place and belonging, and the supernatural--especially in the lives of children coming of age--offer windows into worlds beyond the ordinary throughout The Quick-Change Artist. In the title story, a young chambermaid is in love with a foreign magician who performs at the hotel where she works. In "Heaven," set during the 1918 flu epidemic, a struggling mother and son rely on the support of their fortune-telling plow horse. The narrator of "Jane's Hat" recalls a childhood enlivened by an unusual school principal and a friend who starts finding beauty everywhere. Horses and the people who love them, wanderers and those who feed them, creatures that disappear and those who search for them: these are stories with a constant heart.

General

Imprint:	Swallow Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Cary Holladay
Dimensions:	210 x 133 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-0-8040-1093-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	0-8040-1093-5
Barcode:	9780804010931

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