{"id":51,"date":"2025-01-02T23:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T23:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesflint.net\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2025-01-04T11:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T11:35:55","slug":"52-ways-to-magic-america","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jamesflint.net\/?page_id=51","title":{"rendered":"52 Ways to Magic America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cA British take on Carter Beats the Devil, with acne and hangovers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Peter Preston, The Guardian<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Marty<\/strong> has been practising magic since he was nine. All his hard work and obsessiveness appear to have paid off when, ten years later, he wins both the title of Young Magician of the Year and the heart of Terri Liddell. A glittering professional future seems to beckon for them both, but Marty\u2019s childhood dreams of following his heroes to Las Vegas soon begin to fade as the duo find themselves eking out a living on Britain\u2019s decaying cabaret circuit. Still, it’s amazing what can happen when you\u2019re down on your luck at the top of Blackpool Tower on a wet February afternoon\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

52 Ways to Magic America is the second novel by James Flint, winner of the Amazon.co.uk Award 2000. An unsettling account of the collapse of childhood ideals and the confusion of love in an England dominated by dreams imported from the other side of the Atlantic, it fulfils the tremendous promise shown in his first novel, Habitus, and confirms Flint as one of the most original voices in British fiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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