{"product_id":"9780804010931","title":"The Quick-Change Artist : Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors. From the quiet of a rural forest to the rhythms of rock and roll, The Quick-Change Artist is at once whimsical and hard-edged, dizzying in its matter-of-fact delivery of the fantastic.\n\u003cbr\u003e Romance, a sense of place and belonging, and the supernatural—especially in the lives of children coming of age—offer windows into worlds beyond the ordinary throughout The Quick-Change Artist. In the title story, a young chambermaid is in love with a foreign magician who performs at the hotel where she works. In \"Heaven,\" set during the 1918 flu epidemic, a struggling mother and son rely on the support of their fortune-telling plow horse. The narrator of \"Jane's Hat\" recalls a childhood enlivened by an unusual school principal and a friend who starts finding beauty everywhere.\n\u003cbr\u003e Horses and the people who love them, wanderers and those who feed them, creatures that disappear and those who search for them: these are stories with a constant heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Swallow Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45388439126095,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":663.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9780804010931-1.jpg?v=1784962985","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9780804010931","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}