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Millroy the Magician

by Paul Theroux

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Can't finish it, too wierd and disturbing. (

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jenngv | Sep 16, 2009 |

I enjoy Theroux's nonfiction much more than his novels. This one wasn't bad though ... (

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bherner | Oct 1, 2006 |

A little too bizarre for my tastes. I was never quite sure until the end if he was supposed to be a real magician. I don't think I would recommend this book. (

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Crewman_Number_6 | Jul 30, 2006 |

Another good novel by Theroux. A completely American setting.

Smiley | Feb 21, 2006 |

theroux comes up with another controlling, out of control character in millroy. (

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workgman | Feb 11, 2006 |

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1993

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0449911977, Paperback)

Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina was enthralled with 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, But when Jilly stepped into the wickerwork coffin during a performance, she had no idea he would transform her dreary life into something truly magical, and a touch bizarre.

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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