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The Magician's Wife

The Magician's Wife

by Brian Moore (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

France, 1856: Emmeline Lambert is married to an illusionist sent by Napoleon III to persuade the Arabs - poised for holy war and in thrall to charismatic leaders - that France's might and magic are the greater. Emmeline begins to feel like an illusionist herself, when she dazzles the Emperor and then sheds her inhibitions along with flimsy notions of patriotism and propriety in the hot glare of the Algerian sun. Power, politics, religion and love, the court of Napoleon III and the deserts of Algeria combine in this mesmerising novel from a master storyteller.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 02 Feb 2012
ISBN 10: 1408827018
ISBN 13: 9781408827017
Book Overview: Brian Moore has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Reissued to coincide with the new look for Brian Moore's backlist Six of Brian Moore's novels have been made into films, including The Statement, which starred Michael Caine

Media Reviews
`A spellbinding storyteller' * Independent *
`A tour de force, Moore has left no seams between reality and fiction. Flashing his own sleight of hand, he transforms historical fact into a story both true to its time and relevant to the present day' * New York Times *
`Combines the pleasure of a thriller with a novel that considers questions of morality and politics, ambition and conscience, the lure of illusion and the magic of truth' * People *
`Moore is a magician' * LA Times *
Author Bio
Brian Moore was born in Belfast. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and then moved to California. He twice won the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction and has been given a special award from the United States Institute of Arts and Letters. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award for The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Great Victorian Collection. The Doctor's Wife, The Colour of Blood - winner of the Sunday Express 1988 Book of the Year - and Lies of Silence were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Six of his novels have been made into films - The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Catholics, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Cold Heaven, The Statement and Black Robe. Brian Moore died in 1999.