{"product_id":"the-quick-change-artist-stories-9780804010931","title":"The Quick-Change Artist: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2007 John Gardner Award for Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors. From the quiet of a rural forest to the rhythms of rock and roll, \u003ci\u003eThe Quick-Change Artist\u003c\/i\u003e is at once whimsical and hard-edged, dizzying in its matter-of-fact delivery of the fantastic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRomance, a sense of place and belonging, and the supernatural--especially in the lives of children coming of age--offer windows into worlds beyond the ordinary throughout \u003ci\u003eThe Quick-Change Artist\u003c\/i\u003e. In the title story, a young chambermaid is in love with a foreign magician who performs at the hotel where she works. In \"Heaven,\" set during the 1918 flu epidemic, a struggling mother and son rely on the support of their fortune-telling plow horse. The narrator of \"Jane's Hat\" recalls a childhood enlivened by an unusual school principal and a friend who starts finding beauty everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHorses and the people who love them, wanderers and those who feed them, creatures that disappear and those who search for them: these are stories with a constant heart. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Swallow Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804010931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 5.36w x 0.57d","brand":"Cary Holladay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643746218140,"sku":"9780804010931","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6223f6c0-e37f-4990-a1b2-97fcdc29dcd6.jpg?v=1603857199","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-quick-change-artist-stories-9780804010931","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}