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Bluff - Hardcover

Kardos, Michael

 
9780802128041: Bluff
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0802128041 ISBN 13: 9780802128041
Verlag: Mysterious Press, 2018

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The magician’s job is to create a mystery―an unbridgeable gap between cause and effect. Michael Kardos brilliantly constructs his new novel Bluff as a magician would, delivering a perfectly calibrated performance of intrigue and, ultimately, astonishment.

At twenty-seven, magician Natalie Webb is already a has-been. A card-trick prodigy, she started touring at seventeen, took first place at the World of Magic competition at eighteen, and never reached such heights again. Shunned by the magic world after a disastrous liaison with an older magician, she now lives alone with her pigeons and a pile of overdue bills in a New Jersey apartment. In a desperate ploy to make extra cash, she follows up on an old offer to write a feature magazine article―on the art of cheating at cards. But when she meets the perfect subject for her article, what begins as a journalistic gamble brings into question everything Natalie thinks she knows about her talent, and herself. Natalie is dazzled by the poker cheat’s sleight of hand and soon finds herself facing a proposition that could radically alter her fortune―to help pull off a $1.5 million magic trick that, if done successfully, no one will ever even suspect happened. With Kardos raising the stakes chapter after chapter, Bluff is a breathtaking work of suspense from a writer at the top of his game.

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Michael Kardos is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of the novels The Three-Day Affair and Before He Finds Her and the story collection One Last Good Time. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he lives in Starkville, Mississippi, where he codirects the creative writing program at Mississippi State University.

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Laypeople always assume that an elegant trick must have an equally elegant method. But one of the true secrets of magic is that this is rarely the case. And with sleight-of-hand the secret is never a mirror or harness or contraption but rather five- or ten- or twenty-thousand hours of practice. The artistry is in the execution, not the secret. It’s in learning to hide what ought to be in plain sight.

I could have told him right then how to do the Four Queens, magician’s oath be damned. But then he would know. He’d think: Oh. A vague disappointment, and then he’d be on to the next thing he wanted.

Better, always, to leave them full of wonder.

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Verlag
Mysterious Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802128041
ISBN 13 
9780802128041
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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