(Der Illusionist) [PDF/EBOOK] ☆ Steven Galloway

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characters ✓ Der Illusionist Steven Galloway ↠ 7 Download Summary ´ eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB ↠ Steven Galloway Wissen was wahr ist und was falsch Als Martin Strauss von seinem Arzt erfährt dass er an fortschreitenden und unheilbaren Erinnerungsstörungen leidet versucht er sein Leben zu rekapitulieren noch einmal festzuhalten wie es wirklich war Und es ist ein wahrhaft turbulentes Leben auf das er zurückzublicken meint – ein Leben an der Seite des großen weltbekannten Magiers und Entfesselungskünstlers Houdini Harry Houdini dem Anfang des 20 Jahrhunderts der sagenhafte Aufstieg von kleinen H I received an Advance Reader Copy of this one in exchange for an honest review so here goes with my honestyHarry Houdini led a fascinating life His career was only part of it He was a magician s magician an aviator and a fierce opponent of the spiritualism movement Martin Strauss the supposed 2 time killer of Houdini in The Confabulist never existed I guess I was hoping for a slightly fleshed out version of the story of the life and many deaths of Harry Houdini but instead it was a completely fabricated spy story with only partially realized characters I knew that Houdini s opposition to the spiritualism movement won him many enemies but the speculation in this book brought me so far outside the story that I couldn t enjoy it The best parts of the book were by far the descriptions of Houdini s escapes while the parts about Strauss were so washed out that I was unable

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characters ✓ Der Illusionist Steven Galloway ↠ 7 Download Summary ´ eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB ↠ Steven Galloway Was ist wahr und was ist IllusionErzählern ist zuweilen nicht zu trauen Besonders wenn sie wie Martin Strauss an einer seltenen neurologischen Krankheit leiden an der sogenannten Konfabulation Konfabulierende sind Menschen die objektiv falsche Dinge erzählen in der festen Überzeugung dass sie wirklich genau so geschehen sind Es sind Menschen denen die Erinnerung ein ums andere Mal böse Streiche spielt Und die ohne es selbst zu merken sich immer weniger darauf verlassen können genau zu confabulate k n f bj le t vb1 to talk together converse chat2 psychiatry to replace the gaps left by a disorder of the memory with imaginary remembered experiences consistently believed to be trueAs The Confabulist opens the aging Martin Strauss meets with a doctor who explains that Strauss is in the process of losing his mind while he will continue to perform all of his normal functions his memories will disappear and be replaced with imaginary ones This is a doubly interesting condition to affect him since memories and guilt have plagued Strauss his entire adult life because as he reveals right away he s the man who killed Harry Houdini Twice As he meets with Houdini s daughter Alice Strauss is compelled to unburden himself of his past to apologise for depriving her of a father The book timeshifts between Strauss on the day of the diagnosis the history

characters ✓ Der Illusionist Steven Galloway ↠ 7 Download Summary ´ eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB ↠ Steven Galloway Interzimmerauftritten auf die ganz großen Bühnen der Welt gelang Der von Arthur Conan Doyle bewundert wurde der in das Visier von Scotland Yard geriet dem Verbindungen zu der russischen Zarenfamilie nachgesagt wurden Martin Strauss hat Aufstieg und Fall Harry Houdinis begleitet glaubt er zumindest Und er hat ihn getötet – glaubt er zumindest – und musste daraufhin sein ganzes bisheriges Glück und Leben aufgeben Doch was ist wahr an Martin Strauss‘ Erinnerungen und was ist Illusio Well what a fascinating story If you are interested in Houdini or magic like I amyou would certainly want to read this book Galloway is such a diverse novelist and I can t wait to read what he has in store next The Cellist of Sarajevo was outstanding The Confabulist is a wondrous and mysterious tale Fiction is in the hands of a master when you are dealing with those who are craftsmen