- Hardcover: 439 pages
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd; 1st edition (7 Oct 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0241131855
- ISBN-13: 978-0241131855
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.7 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,751,189 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Picaresque ... Enchanting ... Theroux is a gifted and versatile tale spinner."
-- Time
-- Time
"Amazing ... (A) Startlingly Original Tale Of Pure Magic...that amuses, unnerves, and captivates the reader in a spell of bewilderment, danger, and awe...The reader (will) be enthralled."
-- The Boston Sunday Herald
"Magical ... (A) funny, dark satire of America's obsessions."
-- The New York Times Book Review
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Jilly Farina is 14 and small enough to wear kid's clothes. Her father is drunk on the day of the Barnstable County Fair, so she goes on her own. Millroy the Magician magics her into his trailer and her life is transformed. Theroux is the author of "Mosquito Coast" and "Chicago Loop".
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Jilly is a lonely child, living in a trailer with a family who won't even notice or care whether she's there or not. one day she visits the travelling circus and witnesses Millroy the Magician on stage. Millroy interacts with the children, but is his magic real? He notices Jilly and immediately there is a spark between the two. Jilly leaves home to travel with millroy, dressed as a boy to avoid misunderstandings. obsessed with healthy eating, Millroy opens the Number One diner, which he staffs with children who he believes are open minded enough to understand his plans to make a healthy world. The diner takes off, but the other children are jealous of Milroy's favouritism towards jilly and splinter groups begin to form. although the book has many children characters, it is not a children's book and certainly not sugary.
I have been a total booksworm for over thirty years and this is still, by a long way, the best book I've ever read. It is a love story of the highest degree, a book full of strange happenings and the best anti-Macdonalds novel you could ever hope for. There is just simply nothing negative to say about this book it is Theroux at his absolute best.
I have been a total booksworm for over thirty years and this is still, by a long way, the best book I've ever read. It is a love story of the highest degree, a book full of strange happenings and the best anti-Macdonalds novel you could ever hope for. There is just simply nothing negative to say about this book it is Theroux at his absolute best.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
This is one of the few books I have read twice in a row. Over the years I must have read it half a dozen times and I have now downloaded it on to my Kindle. In my eyes, Paul Theroux's best book.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I,ve read and enjoyed Theroux's travel books such as the intensive yet fulfilling Pillars of Hercules and The Great Railway Bazzar. However I have personally found that the travel writer Theroux excells in his fiction. For Millroy The Magician .Theroux has created an iconic charecter in the magician who comes on the scene in small town America to begin an unusual liason with a 14 year old girl.For to long this excellant masterpiece has been over shadowed by Theroux's more inferior yet overated works. A dazzling rags to riches saga of misadventures. Millroy is a 90's messiah for his disciples of under privelaged youths.This is a superb and compulsive page turner like no other and even superior to Theroux's Kowloon Tong and Doctor Slaughter. Paul Theroux is underated as a novelist and has so much more to offer Hollywood than The Mosquito Coast and Doctor Slaughter .Milroy The Magician is Theroux at his spellbinding excellance.
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I have really enjoyed most of Theroux's books that I have read, of which "Mosquito Coast" would be the nearest in theme. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Neil Carmichael
Millroy the magician
This book makes you uneasy and it isn't for every one. It's obviously masionic in nature, and like the story of Jesus it isn't easy reading. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Markb68
Milroy the Magician
Well this book is something else altogether, mans fascination with a healthy stool is taken to whole new lengths. Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2009 by George Pasparakis
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