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9780486800493

The Magician's Wife

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  • ISBN13:

    9780486800493

  • ISBN10:

    0486800490

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2015-10-21
  • Publisher: Dover Publications

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"A dark, menacingly brilliant tale, tinged with the erotic . . . a kind of film noir between covers directed by Fellini." ― LA Times
"Brilliant, funny, hallucinatory." ― Joyce Carol Oates
"More engaging than 96 percent of the fiction published in France or North America today." ― Artform
"The story and the art are both eerie and erotic." ― Publishers Weekly
Spanning multiple decades and continents, this phantasmagorical epic is the result of a unique collaboration between an award-winning American author and the famous French illustrator of Alexandro Jodorowsky's Bouncer series. Writer Jerome Charyn and artist François Boucq combine their talents to recount a surrealistic tale about the wife of a philandering magician and her struggles with terrifying demons, both real and imaginary.
Originally published as La Femme du magicien, The Magician's Wife was awarded the 1986 Prix Alfred (Angoulême) and the Grand Prix (Sierre). The English-language version has been out of print for three decades, during which time the graphic novel has developed a deep cult following ― this new edition promises to mesmerize a new generation of readers. Suggested for mature readers.

Author Biography

Called "a contemporary American Balzac" by New York Newsday, Jerome Charyn is the author of thirty novels, three memoirs, eight graphic novels, and more acclaimed works. Two of his memoirs were named New York Times Book of the Year, he has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1983. Charyn has also received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been named Commander of Arts and Letter (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the French Minister of Culture.
François Boucq is a French comic book artist, most known for creating the character Jérôme Moucherot. He was awarded the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême in 1998.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Foreword by Drew Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
A Note to the American Reader by Jerome Charyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xi
The Magician’s Wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

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