Millroy the Magician (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Theroux
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: Massachusetts, Colorado, Vermont, and Hawaii
- Principal Characters: Harry Millroy, Jilly Farina, Roy “Dada” Farina, “Gaga,”, Vera Turtle
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Family or family life, Magic or magicians, Spiritual life or spirituality, Food, Business or business people, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Television or television broadcasting, 1990’s
- Locales: Massachusetts, Colorado, Hawaii, Vermont
Paul Theroux has created a rich body of consistently interesting work, including such novels as The Family Arsenal (1976) and such travel books as The Great Railway Bazaar (1975). Millroy the Magician, his thirtieth book, reflects Theroux’s continuing concern with what it means to be lonely and unloved in the contemporary world.
Cape Cod may be picturesque and romantic to its visitors, but to many year-round residents it is merely a place to live. Fifteen-year-old Jilly Farina lives there in lower-middle-class squalor, sometimes with her drunken, widowed...
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