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- The Magus
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- Author: John Fowles
- Reviewer: Richard Crowhurst
- Publisher: Vintage Classics (reissue)
- Format: Adult, Fiction, Paperback, 656 Pages, 2004
- ISBN: 0099478358
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- When womanizing drifter Nicholas Urfe takes a job as an English teacher on the remote Greek island of Phraxos, he anticipates boredom and beautiful scenery. What he doesn't expect is Conchis, the wealthy recluse living in the hideaway of The Waiting Room. What begins as a psychological game between the two men, soon becomes an obsession for Nicholas as he finds himself becoming a willing pawn in Conchis's new forms of theatrical presentation.
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- However, Nicholas cannot escape his past. As he meets his ex-lover, the insecure Alison, in Athens for the weekend, he finds himself wanting the dreams that Conchis seems to offer, even as they change with the tide. The closer that Nicholas comes to understanding Conchis's games, and obtaining the beautiful delights presented by the enigmatic and untrustworthy Julie, the further away they seem. As his world is confused by violence, blackmail and kidnapping, Nicholas wonders where the games will end; even his return to normality is terrorized by his pursuit of answers. The ultimate fear is that he is the victim of a plot of his own creation — then again, is he?
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- The book and its inhabitants travel back to the past, with themes and stage magic. Part love story, part psychological thriller, The Magus is a book that affects everyone who reads it and will linger in your consciousness long after the final revelation.
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