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The Magician's Assistant

Ann Patchett

Paperback | Pages: 357 pages

Rating: 3.66 | 32741 Users | 3274 Reviews

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Title	:	The Magician's Assistant
Author	:	Ann Patchett
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 357 pages
Published	:	1998 by Fourth Estate (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary

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Sabine-- twenty years a magician's assistant to her handsome, charming husband-- is suddenly a widow. In the wake of his death, she finds he has left a final trick; a false identity and a family allegedly lost in a tragic accident but now revealed as very much alive and well. Named as heirs in his will, they enter Sabine's life and set her on an adventure of unraveling his secrets, from sunny Los Angeles to the windswept plains of Nebraska, that will work its own sort of magic on her.

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Original Title:	The Magician's Assistant
ISBN:	1857028155 (ISBN13: 9781857028157)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (1998)

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Digital audio book performed by Karen Ziemba3.5***From the book jacket: Sabine twenty years a magicians assistant to her handsome, charming husband is suddenly a widow. In the wake of his death, she finds he has left a final trick: a false identity and a family allegedly lost in a tragic accident but now revealed as very much alive and well. Named as heirs in his will, they enter Sabines life and set her on an adventure of unraveling his secrets, from sunny Los Angeles to the windswept plains

This is the first book by Ann Patchett I've ever read. It won't be my last.For 20 years Sabine has been the assistant to the brilliant magician, Parsifal, with whom she has also been obsessively in love. But Parsifal is gay, and his lover, Phan, is part of this trio of characters. Unsavory as this may sound, it seems to work well for them.Then Phan dies -- Parsifal, feeling his own death is nearing -- marries Sabine so that she can inherit his and Phan's estates. But, once she's a widow, the

Maybe I am biased when it comes to Ann Patchett but I just loved loved loved this book. Wonderful story about Sabina who is wife, partner and friend for more than 20 years to Parsifal, a magician. After Parsifal dies Sabine finds out that he has a Mother, two sisters and two nephews living in Nebraska that she never knew anything about. The book is about love and relationships, family, magic, secrets and friendship. So beautifully written, just loved it highly recommend.

I truly love Ann Patchett's writing. Her characters are deep and raw and flawed and so human. They are so well presented and developed so that by the end I have a clear vision of who they are...even if they don't know have such a clear view of themselves.I love love loved the characters and they made this book so good.This book was such a beautiful and emotion description of deep grief from different point of views. The inside of Sabine's mind was an interesting place to be and I enjoyed

Whew. I've been muddling through 2 and 3 star books for a while; it was quite a relief to find this beautiful specimen. I have State of Wonder on my to read list and was browsing stacks in the library by author and figured I'd pick up something else by Patchett to see what I thought. And I loved it. This book was very compelling, beautifully written, amazingly perceptive, funny, and wise. The characters were complex, the plot unfolded well, and I really only have one very small criticism. I

The Magicians Assistant *** ½ Ann PatchettI found the trio of Sabine, Parsifal and Phan all too good, too unflawed, too beautiful, and Sabine's adoration of Parsifal for 22 years was a little hard to fathom. There was apparently no heartache, no discord. In addition, Sabine had been so in love with the glamorous, gay Parsifal that she had failed to realize that she was really gay herself, and thus her attraction to Kitty at the end. That was a bit of a stretch--this beautiful, personable,

This morning, my belligerent son used his well-honed fingernails to pierce a hole in my hand, drawing blood. When I felt the pain, I smacked his hand away in self defense. I don't feel like talking to him, or even looking at him, for a week. I think he feels the same. He is six, and he has beautiful eyes.Of course, were he to be diagnosed with brain cancer, my heart would explode and die, and my will to live would wane faster than you could say intentional overdose. Can a person overdose on