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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2006
On Sale: October 3, 2006
496 pages
ISBN: 0374200017
EAN: 9780374200015
Hardcover
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Fiction
When the Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Doug Marlette
last turned to fiction, Valerie Sayers rejoiced in The
Washington Post Book World: “The Bridge [is] a great
story—exuberant, proud, myth-challenging—and Marlette has a
great, Dickensian time with the telling.” Pat Conroy saluted
The Bridge as the finest first novel to come out of North
Carolina since Look Homeward, Angel. Studs Turkel called it
“enthralling.” Kaye Gibbons marveled at its “extraordinary
grace [and] humor.” And the Southeast Booksellers
Association gave The Bridge the 2002 Book Award for Fiction.
Marlette’s new novel, Magic Time, is a spellbinding stew of
history, murder, courtroom drama, humor, love, betrayal, and
justice. Moving between New York City and the New South of
the early 1990s, with flashbacks to Mississippi’s
cataclysmic Freedom Summer of 1964, Magic Time tells the
story of New York newspaper columnist Carter Ransom, a son
of Mississippi, who had the great fortune and terrible luck
of falling in love that summer of ‘64 with a New York–born
civil rights worker who wound up being killed alongside
three coworkers. Carter’s father, the local judge, presided
over the first trial of the murders. But now there’s
evidence that the original trial was flawed, even
fraudulent. And the question, among many others, is whether
the good judge was knowingly involved in a cover-up.
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