Description
A lonely teenage girl becomes entangled with Millroy, a charismatic country-fair magician whose strange performances and grand spiritual claims draw him toward an unsettling new kind of celebrity. As he gathers followers and constructs a private mythology rooted in religion, natural living, and spectacle, the boundary between genuine wonder and dangerous self-deception grows increasingly difficult to discern. Through this disturbing relationship, the novel explores power, manipulation, faith, loneliness, and society’s appetite for television, advertising, and charismatic personalities. Darkly comic and provocative, it is a sharp satire of American culture and the seductive, destructive force of manufactured belief.
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paperback
Penguin
Published Jan 1, 1994
448 pages
ISBN: 9780140159776
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Details
First Published
1993
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Millroy the Magician by Paul Theroux.