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The Magician’s Assistant

novel by Patchett

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In Ann Patchett: Early novels
The Magician’s Assistant (1997) relates the discoveries of the widow of a gay magician named Parsifal. The woman, who also had been her husband’s assistant, visits the family he had never told her of and learns about his past.
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