Carter Beats the Devil

Carter Beats the Devil
Authors
Gold, Glen David
Publisher
Hyperion
Tags
fiction , literary , mystery , general
ISBN
9780786870165
Date
2001-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
1.39 MB
Lang
en
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The response to Glen David Gold's debut novel, *Carter Beats the Devil*, was extraordinary. He hypnotized us with his portrait of a 1920s magic-obsessed America and of Charles Carter--a.k.a. Carter the Great--a young master performer whose skill as an illusionist exceeded even that of the great Houdini. Filled with historical references that evoke the excesses and exuberance of Roaring Twenties pre-Depression America, *Carter Beats the Devil* is a complex and illuminating story of one man's journey through a magical and sometimes dangerous world, where illusion is everything.