Adlai Stevenson and the World by John Bartlow Martin
Finalist for the 2007 John Gardner Award for Fiction
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.
Martin, John Bartlow: - John Bartlow Martin is a freelance writer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385121798 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385121792 |
| Title | Adlai Stevenson and the World |
| Author | John Bartlow Martin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Doubleday Books |
| Year published | 1977-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 946 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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