Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician, Daniel Wallace
Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician, Daniel Wallace
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Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician

Author: Daniel Wallace

Narrator: Katherine Kellgren, Tom Stechschulte, Alyssa Bresnahan, Norman Dietz, L.J. Ganser, T. Ryder Smith

Unabridged: 10 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/06/2008


Synopsis

Henry Walker was once a world-class magician, performing to sold-out shows in New York. But now he has been reduced to joining Musgrove's Chinese Circus (which at no point in its tour of the deep South has ever included a single Chinese person) as the shambling Negro Magician, whose dark black skin and electric green eyes bewitch most audiences. But one balmy Mississippi night in 1954, Henry disappears in the company of three rowdy white teens and is never seen again. Wallace pieces together Henry's incredible vagabond life - from a deal with a bone-white devil known only as Mr. Sebastian, to the heartrending loss of his sister Hannah - and creates an enchanting tale of love, loss, identity, and the limitation of magic.

About Daniel Wallace

Daniel Wallace is the author of five novels. His first, Big Fish, was made into a motion picture of the same name by Tim Burton in 2003, and a musical version is coming to Broadway in 2013. Wallace’s work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and is studied in high schools and universities across the country. He is a contributing editor to Garden & Gun magazine and is the J. Ross MacDonald Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he teaches and directs the Creative Writing Program. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife, Laura Kellison Wallace. Visit his website at DanielWallace.org.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anna-Maria on January 29, 2022

~3,5⭐️......more

Goodreads review by Kirby on September 23, 2008

This is possibly the first time that national mood has significantly affected my ability to enjoy a book. I finished it, but kept returning to the beginning scenes, where an elderly Black magician repeatedly fails in front of a white audience that has paid to see him do just that. It has the effect......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on September 03, 2013

I love anything to do with magic and magicians, but it is seldom one comes across a book about magic that is actually magical. This is such a book. A story so full of wonder, so beautiful and sad and moving, so entertaining and so completely awesome. The main protagonist, Henry Walker, is essentiall......more

Goodreads review by Vonia on August 26, 2020

3.5 stars Good story, whimsical, dark magic. Unsatisfied with vague ending. In depth review later.......more

Goodreads review by JoJoClassicComeBack on January 08, 2024

One of my all time favorites reality is perception. Nothing could be truer to the little boy who thought he lost his sister and lived his life doling out his own consequences without realizing. To those who do read this and I highly recommend, I found a 3 of hearts card from a deck all alone in a pa......more