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Millroy the Magician is a novel by American writer Paul Theroux. It was published in 1993 by Hamish Hamilton in the UK and by Random House the following year in the US, [1] where it was chosen as one of the New York Times notable books of the year. [2]
- Paul Theroux
- 1993
Jan 1, 1993 · Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina was mesmerized by Millroy the Magician at the Barnstable County Fair. After all, he once turned a girl from the audience into a glass of milk and drank her.
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Feb 15, 1994 · From School Library Journal. YA-A strange, often funny, and always provocative story about a country-fair magician who becomes a cult leader. During an awe-inspiring performance, Millroy the Magician locks eyes with skinny 14-year-old Jilly Farina (the narrator) and asks her to stay with him.
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- 1993
- Paul Theroux
- Paul Theroux
Jan 1, 1994 · A satirical novel about a charismatic magician who becomes a TV host and a vegetarian guru, and his relationship with a young girl. Kirkus Reviews gives a mixed review, praising the wit and ambition, but criticizing the distance and the ending.
Mar 1, 1995 · For Millroy was no ordinary magician. He could smell the future, and Jilly was going to be part of it. Yet not even Millroy could foresee how far determination and a dream could take him, as he and his new young assistant hit the road--and the airwaves--to save America's unhealthy appetite and floundering soul....
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- Paul Theroux
YA-A strange, often funny, and always provocative story about a country-fair magician who becomes a cult leader. During an awe-inspiring performance, Millroy the Magician locks eyes with skinny 14-year-old Jilly Farina (the narrator) and asks her to stay with him.
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux tells a bewitching tale of circus magic and hypnotism which seems to hide a more sinister objective in his exquisite novel Millroy the Magician. Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina walks into the tent at the County Fair and finds her life transformed.
