The Magician's Assistant

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Exact Words: Todd extracts a promise from Nazrak that he must leave Mrs. Marker alone if he wants the wand. When Nazrak agrees and Todd hands over the wand, the demon points out that he never said he would leave Todd himself alone, and he prepares to banish him to the vortex with Shandu.

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Parsifal turns out to be a gay magician, the owner of a rug store in Los Angeles who has AIDS and who has just died of a ruptured aneurysm while holding hands with his assistant, Sabine, whom he recently married. ''I love you,'' Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While irascible, Shandu is a supportive mentor, warmly congratulates Todd on his defeat of Nazrak, and gives a hearty performance to a party of kids (despite his longing for the old days).After disliking both Bel Canto and State of Wonder, I’d all but given up on Ann Patchett’s novels. JoAnn suggested I try The Magician’s Assistant as a last chance, and I chose to listen to it. About the Book: A comedy magic show might not seem like the perfect place to challenge the lazy sexism of traditional performative presentations of gender onstage, but in my experience a female assistant can send up and subvert the stereotypes by encouraging the audience to laugh at them. When I first started working as a magician’s assistant in a late-night cabaret show in a small central-London theatre, I couldn’t have anticipated just how much it would change my performing life. Stage magic and illusion had not, unsurprisingly, been part of my training at university and drama school, but they opened up a whole new world of stagecraft, audience interaction, pacing and physicality that helped me unlearn and relearn ways to be and communicate on stage, as well as to direct and focus the attention of audiences.

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Rule #1: Over the course of the first act, Shandu reveals three cardinal rules of magic to Todd. Rule #1: "Never, ever touch another magician's wand unless he hands it to you." Rule #2: "Only let them see what you want them to see." Rule #3: "Never, ever get caught in your own reflection." After Todd uses the three rules to defeat Nazrak, Shandu passes his wand on to him, and just before he disappears, he reveals Rule #4: "Always leave them wanting more."In a minute or so when my cue comes, I’ll slip off the top layer of my costume, get in position and prepare to reappear in what seems like a different outfit and from what seems like a tiny space. It’s magic. The audience applaud, delighted that they have been fooled. Has The Magician’s Assistant restored my willingness to try more by Ann Patchett? I’d say it has. I do have Run and The Patron Saint of Liars on my shelf already, so I’m sure I’ll try at least one of those. For readers who have had similarly disappointing experiences with Ann Patchett’s novels, The Magician’s Assistant is different enough that I’d recommend it as a nice change of pace. Thanks to JoAnn for suggesting it to me!

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Does that (somewhat clumsy) summary make this one sound odd? Don’t get too hung up on it. Patchett manages to make it all work, somehow! My Thoughts: of her favorite work. A childhood that could be mined month by month. Parsifal would not get older, but what about younger?''

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