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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Abracadabra
    sub title: a novel
  title info:
    title: Abra cadabra
  name:
    name part: Kranes, David
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  genre: Noir fiction.
  genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nvu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 241 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Abracadabra is a fantastical and inventive addition to the tradition of noir writing, which not only delights and surprises at every turn but also raises important questions about identity, the human condition, the nature of evil and the state of the union. The novel begins with a mystery, when Mark Goodson, a seemingly well-adjusted married man, disappears during a magic act, precipitating a series of events, encounters and seemingly inexplicable occurrences, which it falls to a former professional football player, Elko Wells, to weave together into a story that is at once compelling and true. The concussion that ended Wells' playing career left him open to hearing voices and discerning patterns of meaning helpful to his work as the owner of a missing-persons agency. He also owns a celebrity look-alike agency, which complicates matters in humorous ways, and his reliance on a string of cocktail waitresses called the Bloody Marys who are on the lookout for various people adds another level of intrigue. Magicians and misdirection, gambling, down-on-one's-luck, the crazed sense of possibility and impossibility, mistaken identity, impersonators and body doubles, people acting bizarrely with all sorts of chaos, collisions and overlaps thrown in for good measure. Again and again the reader is swept into treacherous waters, always confident that the writer is in control of his material. Because the many twists and turns the plot takes are all but impossible to anticipate, the experience of reading Abracadabra is deliciously magical.
  note: David Kranes.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-nv
  subject:
    geographic: Las Vegas (Nev.)
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS3561.R26 A63 2018
  classification: 813/.54
  identifier: 9781943859443
  identifier: 1943859442
  identifier: 2017009453
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170317
    record change date: 20180430074751.0
    record identifier: in00003896917