The confabulist

ISBN: 9780307400871
ISBN: 0307400875
Physical Description: remote 1 online resource.
Publisher: Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2014.

Galloway, Steven 1975- (author.).

Summary: -- The Cellist of Sarajevo -- weaves together the life, loves and murder of the world's greatest magician, Harry Houdini, with the story of the man who killed him (twice): Martin Strauss, an everyday man whose fate was tied to the magician's in unforeseen ways. A cast of memorable characters spins around Houdini's celebrity-driven life, as they did in his time: from the Romanov family soon to be assassinated, to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the powerful heads of Scotland Yard, and the Spiritualists who would use whoever they could to establish their religion. A brilliant novel about fame and ambition, reality and illusion, and the ways that love, grief and imagination can alter what we perceive and believe.