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yThe Last MagicianJanette Turner Hospital,
St Lucia:University of Queensland Press,1992Z4619431992single work novel (taught in 1 units)Charlie, a world-famous avant-garde photographer, is to all the world a successful adult. But deep within the fabric of his daily life float childhood memories that he cannot forget. He shares with three others knowledge of an act of ultimate cruelty–a childhood prank that ended in a murder. The state called it an accident, and the children remained silent. Until now. The story of Charlie’s hunt for one of his group, the mysterious Cat, is told by Lucy, a hooker living among the vast underworld that populates the quarry beneath the city of Sydney. This final journey, taken to exorcise the terrible past, will bring them face-to-face with power and betrayal, sexual obsession and social ostracism, and with the searing heart of themselves that they cannot and will not forget…
The Last Magician
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
1992
Z461943
1992
single work
novel
(taught in 1 units)
Charlie, a world-famous avant-garde photographer, is to all the world a successful adult. But deep within the fabric of his daily life float childhood memories that he cannot forget. He shares with three others knowledge of an act of ultimate cruelty–a childhood prank that ended in a murder. The state called it an accident, and the children remained silent. Until now. The story of Charlie’s hunt for one of his group, the mysterious Cat, is told by Lucy, a hooker living among the vast underworld that populates the quarry beneath the city of Sydney. This final journey, taken to exorcise the terrible past, will bring them face-to-face with power and betrayal, sexual obsession and social ostracism, and with the searing heart of themselves that they cannot and will not forget…
