A haunting, tender story that weaves a tragic secret, a mysterious meeting with the Devil, and a family of charming circus freaks recounting the extraordinary adventures of their friend Henry Walker, the Negro Magician.
Doubleday
July 2007
On Sale: July 3, 2007
Featuring: Henry Walker; Jenny the Ossified Girl; Rudy the Strong Man
272 pages ISBN: 038552109X EAN: 9780385521093 Hardcover Add to Wish List
From the author of Big Fish comes this haunting,
tender story that weaves a tragic secret, a mysterious
meeting with the Devil, and a family of charming circus
freaks recounting the extraordinary adventures of their
friend Henry Walker, the Negro Magician.
In the
middle of a dusty Southern town, in the middle of the
twentieth century, magician Henry Walker entertains crowds
at Jeremiah Musgrove’s Chinese Circus. Though not the
world-famous illusionist he once was, Henry, with his dark
skin and green eyes, is still something of a novelty to the
patrons who pay a dime to see his show. Most of the patrons,
anyway.
As the novel begins, one May night in 1954,
Henry is confronted by three menacing white teens, and soon
thereafter disappears. With his fate uncertain, his friends
from the circus—Jenny the Ossified Girl, Rudy the Strong
Man, and JJ the Barker—piece together what they know of
Henry's mysterious and extraordinary life. The result is a
spellbinding adventure that begins when ten-year-old Henry
meets the devil, who gives him the art of magic and then
steals the one thing that means the most to him. As Henry’s
friends recount the remarkable adventures and incredible
heartache that result from this childhood encounter, only
one thing seems certain about Henry's life: nothing is as it
appears.
Brimming with surprising twists and turns,
and peopled with a literal circus of memorable characters,
Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician is Daniel
Wallace at his finest. As in his beloved debut, Big
Fish, Wallace once again conjures a wondrous tale with
an emotional punch. This is a story of love and loss,
identity and illusion, fate and choice; a story that will
capture your heart and your imagination and not let go until
the very last page.
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