When Theroux introduces other elements into his novel, like Millroy's venture into television, his tangling with a bitter children's-show host and an unhinged evangelist, his launch of a chain of health-food diners, and his gathering a tribe of "Sons and Daughters" who have escaped from homes worse than Jilly's, the plot wanders less convincingly and failed to hold my attention/5(25). Editions of Millroy the Magician by Paul Theroux. Editions for Millroy the Magician: (Paperback published in ), (Hardcover published in Author: Paul Theroux. Award-winning writer Paul Theroux tells a bewitching tale of circus magic and hypnotism which seems to hide a more sinister objective in his exquisite novel Millroy the Magician. Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina walks into the tent at the County Fair and finds her life transformed/5(16).
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MILLROY THE MAGICIAN By Paul Theroux. pp. New York: Random House. $ Text: MIDWAY through Paul Theroux's "Millroy the Magician," a character named Ed Veazie tells the novel's eccentric. Millroy is a magician capable of true magic (liquidizing people and drinking them like milk) and is obsessed with healthy food as eaten in the Bible. He takes year old Jilly along on his travels, and it is through her eyes we see the slightly disturbing story unfold. Award-winning writer Paul Theroux tells a bewitching tale of circus magic and hypnotism which seems to hide a more sinister objective in his exquisite novel Millroy the Magician. Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina walks into the tent at the County Fair and finds her life transformed. Fixing her with her hypnotic gaze, Millroy the Magician performs.
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