The Illusionist is the sensuous and haunting tale of Dean Lily, an amateur magician whose arrival in Sparta, New York, upsets the landscape of this small town on the wane. Dean, a master of the sleight of hand, is also a master of seduction and charm -- which becomes apparent as he woos and wins ...
Far from home, they were safe from censure; she was no longer afraid. In Weimar, George set about researching his Goethe book. They’d been there only a few days when Franz Liszt came calling on them in their rooms on the Kaufgasse. George had met Liszt before in Vienna and written a “letter” from...