The Magician
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The Magician
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Narrated by:
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Grover Gardner
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By:
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Sol Stein
The Magician is the now famous story of two sixteen-year-old antagonists locked in the crucible of their high school from which neither can escape.
Ed Japhet gives a skillful performance of magic at the school prom. After the prom, Ed and his girlfriend are beset by Urek, the leader of a school gang that extracts extortion money by “renting” kids their own lockers. Ed is the only student who refuses to pay extortion money. Urek’s fury at Japhet’s defiance results in an attempted murder, a criminal trial, and death, with a shocker of an ending.
Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club and widely taught in American schools, this book has sold over a million copies and has been published all over the world, including Britain, France, Germany, and as far away as Russia and Japan.
©1971 , 2000 by Sol Stein. Foreword © 1991, 2000 by Sol Stein (P)2003 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Continue the series
Critic reviews
“Beautiful and gripping. I cannot recall a novel of this type with greater pleasure.”
(New York Times Book Review)“If you bury yourself in a Sol Stein book while walking, you’ll walk into a wall.”
(New York Times)“Irresistible! It would not be fair to reveal the shocking ironic outcome, but I promise you that the story will grip you from start to finish.”
(New York Times)“[Gardner’s] expert narration is a great match for this novel…straightforward and, fitting this novel, a bit acerbic. His pacing is excellent, and emotional colorings fit the prose perfectly. This deserves to be widely heard.”
(Kliatt)“The Magician is one of those rare books that, once you read it, you will never forget…Gardner’s voice and style fit the teenaged naïveté and bravado that inhabit the book’s main characters, and he paces the story beautifully, particularly the climactic courtroom scenes.”
(AudioFile)“A sharklike bite that won’t be easily forgotten. Fast moving, incisive, angry, fine, and dramatic!”
(Library Journal)Why have we forgotten Somerset Maugham? The themes here are really very contemporary and the style is anything but dated, I really enjoy everything that he wrote - short stories through to the better known mainstream novels. And yet 'The Magician' holds no better place than a 1950's B movie...try it!
Was there ever an author so forgotten...?
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