{"product_id":"the-quick-change-artist-stories-paperback","title":"The Quick-Change Artist: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCary Holladay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors. From the quiet of a rural forest to the rhythms of rock and roll, \u003ci\u003eThe Quick-Change Artist\u003c\/i\u003e is at once whimsical and hard-edged, dizzying in its matter-of-fact delivery of the fantastic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRomance, a sense of place and belonging, and the supernatural-especially in the lives of children coming of age-offer windows into worlds beyond the ordinary throughout \u003ci\u003eThe Quick-Change Artist\u003c\/i\u003e. In the title story, a young chambermaid is in love with a foreign magician who performs at the hotel where she works. In \"Heaven,\" set during the 1918 flu epidemic, a struggling mother and son rely on the support of their fortune-telling plow horse. The narrator of \"Jane's Hat\" recalls a childhood enlivened by an unusual school principal and a friend who starts finding beauty everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHorses and the people who love them, wanderers and those who feed them, creatures that disappear and those who search for them: these are stories with a constant heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCary Holladay\u003c\/b\u003e has published seven volumes of fiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Quick-Change Artist, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHorse People: Stories, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Deer in the Mirror.\u003c\/i\u003e Her stories and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eEcotone, Epoch, Georgia Review, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Southern Review, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other journals. Her story \"Merry-Go-Sorry\" was selected by Stephen King for an O. Henry award. She teaches at the University of Memphis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 8.26 x 5.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52522071327027,"sku":"9780804010931","price":28.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/a2hKOXcyV1M4ODdSNFRjRUY0UzE2Zz09.webp?v=1760543645","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-quick-change-artist-stories-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}