Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Contained within this text is a complete manual for the magician, including information on conjuring tricks with cards, balls, and dice; magic writing, performing animals, and much more besides. Complete with simple, clear instructions and detailed illustrations, this text is ideal for the novice magician and will also be of considerable value to the professional conjurer as a reference book and source of inspiration. The chapters of this book include: 'Modern Magic by Sleight of Hand and Mechanism'; 'Tricks with Cards'; 'Deceptions with Dice', 'Thimblerig', etc.; 'Miscellaneous Magic'; 'The Mystery of Magic Writing'; 'The Mystery of Training Animals'. We are proud to republish this book now complete with a new introduction on magic tricks.

Edith Wharton was born into a privileged New York family in 1862 and died in France in 1937. In addition to her works as a novelist, most famously The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country, and Ethan Frome, she also was a renowned interior designer, and was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge; the #1 New York Times bestseller My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys, a New York Times bestseller; Abide with Me, a national bestseller and Book Sense pick; and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. Elizabeth Strout lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780812971835
ISBN 10	0812971833
Title	Olive Kitteridge
Author	Elizabeth Strout
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2008-09-30
Number of pages	336
Prizes	Winner of Pulitzer Prize 2009
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