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Millroy de tovenaar (1993)

door Paul Theroux

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Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina was enthralled with Millroy the Magician at the Barnstable County Fair. After all, he once turned a girl from the audience into a glass of milk and drank her, But when Jilly stepped into the wickerwork coffin during a performance, she had no idea he would transform her dreary life into something truly magical, and a touch bizarre. For Millroy was no ordinary magician. He could smell the future, and Jilly was going to be part of it. Yet not even Millroy could foresee how far determination and a dream could take him, as he and his new young assistant hit the road -and the airwaves -- to save America's unhealthy appetite and floundering soul....… (meer)

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Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina was enthralled with Millroy the Magician at the Barnstable County Fair. After all, he once turned a girl from the audience into a glass of milk and drank her, But when Jilly stepped into the wickerwork coffin during a performance, she had no idea he would transform her dreary life into something truly magical, and a touch bizarre.
For Millroy was no ordinary magician. He could smell the future, and Jilly was going to be part of it. Yet not even Millroy could foresee how far determination and a dream could take him, as he and his new young assistant hit the road -and the airwaves -- to save America's unhealthy appetite and floundering soul...

Lake_Oswego_UCC | Aug 6, 2017 |

Millroy is a charmingly-flawed character who nevertheless convinces himself that it's critical to try to be heroic ALL the time - he is successful part the time. I would like to see someone compare this book to Nabokov's _Lolita_...And Millroy is by far one of Theroux's most thoroughly realized characterizations. (

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dbsovereign | Jan 26, 2016 |

Can't finish it, too wierd and disturbing. (

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jenngv | Sep 16, 2009 |

I enjoy Theroux's nonfiction much more than his novels. This one wasn't bad though ... (

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bherner | Oct 1, 2006 |

A little too bizarre for my tastes. I was never quite sure until the end if he was supposed to be a real magician. I don't think I would recommend this book. (

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One can only hope that the magical transformation in the final chapter may linger with readers long after too easily conjured biblical satire fades away, and that those who reach the end of Mr. Theroux's three-ring circus of a novel see its final act as worth the price of admission.

toegevoegd door John_Vaughan | bewerkNY Times, Charles Johnson (Jul 19, 1994)

Theroux's satire--waggish, broad, ambitious, spotty--keeps all the characters but Millroy and Jilly at a cool distance, and the relationship between them isn't nearly as engaging as it's apparently meant to be. Even fans may find themselves glancing at their watches.

toegevoegd door John_Vaughan | bewerkKirkus (Jul 21, 1993)

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Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina was enthralled with Millroy the Magician at the Barnstable County Fair. After all, he once turned a girl from the audience into a glass of milk and drank her, But when Jilly stepped into the wickerwork coffin during a performance, she had no idea he would transform her dreary life into something truly magical, and a touch bizarre. For Millroy was no ordinary magician. He could smell the future, and Jilly was going to be part of it. Yet not even Millroy could foresee how far determination and a dream could take him, as he and his new young assistant hit the road -and the airwaves -- to save America's unhealthy appetite and floundering soul....

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