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New novel from ‘Big Fish’ author Daniel Wallace
By M&C News Jul 13, 2007, 14:59 GMT
Daniel Wallace, the author of the charming 1998 novel Big Fish, was later made into a film, directed by Tim Burton. Now Wallace has a new novel called Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician.
Set in the 1950s the readers are presented with an unreliable narrator, the story of a once great magician reduced to just a circus act.
It is a book that Publisher’s Weekly is calling, “Wallace skillfully unravels the tale, and though the conclusion is both startling and inevitable, and Henry is as beguiling and enigmatic a character as Wallace has created, the milieu of carnies, hucksters, tricksters and wanderers isn't as sharp as it could be.”
Booklist admits that although “Wallace's fractured fairy tale may strike readers new to the author as somewhat gimmicky; it will appeal to his fan base.”
For a review of Big Fish the novel, click here. For the Tim Burton film, click here.
Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician, published by Doubleday, finishes at 272 pages.
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