Magic Time - Softcover

Doug Marlette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374959536 ISBN 13: 9780374959531

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006

Synopsis

"A prize-winning Southern master storyteller weaves a riveting tale of love, mystery and justice" When the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette last turned to fiction, Valerie Sayers rejoiced in "The Washington Post Book World": ""The Bridge" is] a great story--exuberant, proud, myth-challenging--and Marlette has a great, Dickensian time with the telling." Pat Conroy saluted "The Bridge" as the finest first novel to come out of North Carolina since "Look Homeward, Angel." Studs Turkel called it "enthralling." Kaye Gibbons marveled at its "extraordinary grace and] humor." And the Southeast Booksellers Association gave "The Bridge" the 2002 Book Award for Fiction. Marlette's new novel, "Magic Time," is a spellbinding stew of history, murder, courtroom drama, humor, love, betrayal, and justice. Moving between New York City and the New South of the early 1990s, with flashbacks to Mississippi's cataclysmic Freedom Summer of 1964, "Magic Time ""tells the story of """New York newspaper columnist Carter Ransom, a son of Mississippi, who had the great fortune and terrible luck of falling in love that summer of '64 with a New York-born civil rights worker who wound up being killed alongside three coworkers. Carter's father, the local judge, presided over the first trial of the murders. But now there's evidence that the original trial was flawed, even fraudulent. And the question, among many others, is whether the good judge was knowingly involved in a cover-up. "Magic Time" is that rare a page-turner whose driving plot line is matched by the depth of its moral vision.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374959536
• ISBN 13: 9780374959531
• Binding: Paperback