· MAGRUDER'S will be released by Sourcebooks Landmark on June 7, “It's a rare novel that manages to combine humor, tragedy, powerful friendships, outcasts, insiders, detached satire, and deeply felt emotion all in one, but HP Wood's Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet manages to pull off the trick--just don't ask how it's performed! Fascinating and deeply compelling compulsively readable.”. Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet is an engaging novel set in the early ’s on Coney Island, New York. It’s , and seventeen year old Kitty Hayward finds herself stranded in Coney Island when her ailing mother, and all their belongings, inexplicably disappears from the hotel room they were sharing/5. · "Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet is an enchanting, darkly wondrous adventure. Beautiful and tragic, this stunning debut novel transports the reader to the heart of New York's Coney Island in the s and the sideshow Unusuals who live www.doorway.ru: Sourcebooks.
H. P. Wood is the granddaughter of a mad inventor and a sideshow magician. Instead of making things disappear, she makes books of all shapes and sizes. She has written or edited works on an array of topics, including the history of the Internet, the future of human rights, and the total awesomeness of playing with sticks. When the plague arrives in Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet, one of the first to fall is a sideshow performer named Count Orloff, the Transparent Man. Orloff was a real person who did, in fact, die in Ivannow Wladislaus von Dziarski-Orloff, was born into an average body in Budapest, Hungary in But at age 14 he contracted a "wasting disease" that robbed him of most of his body. Get this from a library! Magruder's curiosity cabinet: a novel. [H P Wood] -- "After Kitty Armstrong's mother vanishes from their Coney Island hotel in , Kitty finds herself alone, hungry, penniless, and far away from her native England. The last people she'd expect to.
Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet is an engaging novel set in the early ’s on Coney Island, New York. It’s , and seventeen year old Kitty Hayward finds herself stranded in Coney Island when her ailing mother, and all their belongings, inexplicably disappears from the hotel room they were sharing. Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet by H. P. Wood Overview - "It's a rare novel that manages to combine humor, tragedy, powerful friendships, outcasts, insiders, detached satire, and deeply felt emotion all in one, but HP Wood's Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet manages to pull off the trick-- just don't ask how it's performed "--Lauren Willig, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Daughter. Debut author Wood manages a large cast and a complicated story with a light touch and has a knack for capturing a character with a deft phrase." - Kirkus Reviews "Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet is a book peopled by brilliant, larger-than-life characters that survive on the fringes of a society that despises the unusual or the different. These characters, and the world they inhabit, leap off the pages in glorious splendor, drawing the reader to dance in the light of their flames.".
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