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The Magician's Book

A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

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THE MAGICIAN'S BOOK is the story of one reader's long, tumultuous relationship with C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. As a child, Laura Miller read and re-read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and its sequels countless times, and wanted nothing more that to find her own way to Narnia. In her skeptical teens, a casual reference to the Chronicles's Christian themes left her feeling betrayed and alienated from the stories she had come to know and trust. Years later, convinced that "the first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with," Miller returns to Lewis's classic fantasies to see what mysteries Narnia still holds for adult eyes--and is captured in an entirely new way. ... more

About Author

Laura Miller is a co-founder of Salon.com, where she is currently a staff writer, and a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine and other publications. She is the editor of The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors (Penguin, 2000). She lives in New York.

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The Magician's Book
Back Bay Books
Category:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, LITERARY CRITICISM
Format:
TRADE PAPERBACK
Publish Date:
12/2/2009
Price:
$14.99/$17.99
ISBN:
9780316017657
Pages:
336
Size:
5-1/2" x 8-1/4"

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