{"product_id":"the-quick-change-artist-2","title":"The Quick-Change Artist","description":"\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, The Quick-Change Artist is at once whimsical and hard-edged, dizzying in its matter-of-fact delivery of the fantastic.\u003cbr\u003e\nRomance, 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 The Quick-Change Artist. 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\nHorses 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\n","brand":"Cary Holladay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572232224950,"sku":"9780804040273","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780804040273_f35be1a3-c034-455a-97bc-033f83fd8f11.jpg?v=1727082464","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-quick-change-artist-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}