Pocketful of Smoke Fistful of Glass eBook John Urbancik
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In a dark corner of Midnight, the City of Night, find a seat for the burlesque show at the Palais Royal. There may be ghosts, and there may be monkeys, but there's most definitely an exhibitionist and a contortionist and a storyteller, and they're right next door to Possum's Kitty Supplies -- rumored to be a whorehouse, and rumored to be much more than that. What will an illusionist do when confronted by a magician?
Pocketful of Smoke Fistful of Glass eBook John Urbancik
To say that Pocketful of Smoke Fistful of Glass reminds me a little of the HBO series Carnivale doesn't really do the book justice; it is off the mark in that Pocketful's setting and characters are more prosperous and less transient than Carnivale's. But it's the only comparison I can draw to convey that the book's characters embody the plot and envelope the reader until he's subsumed into their world. The plot is deceptively simple: there's a theater in the town of Midnight (so named because the sun never rises on it) and in that theater there is a tight knit group of performers whose identities are as changeful and mysterious as their abandoned pasts. A stranger intrudes on this group, a mysterious man who patiently sits out the shows in the backstage shadows. Who invited him, who he's visiting (The Illusionist? The Contortionist? The Exhibitionist? The Grand Madame, herself?), is anyone's guess. But it's clear he has an agenda. The variety show's smooth pace warps out of character until it eventually reveals the stranger's mission, to the peril of the theater and its inhabitants.Pocketful of Smoke Fistful of Glass will feel slow if you're used to an action-movie pace and lots of gore and violence. But if you like immersing yourself in a strange landscape that changes shape and color from the first page to the last, you'll like this story. It's meant to be savored, not charged through. So relax with it.
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Pocketful of Smoke Fistful of Glass eBook John Urbancik Reviews
A little over a decade ago, I stumbled upon some copies of John Urbancik's work in a book shop in Florida. They were signed, no less. I started to browse through them, and bought all of them.
This time around, the only difference is that the copies are electronic, and there's no signature. The story is just as great, however. The pace is fast, and before I knew it, I had reached the end with a feeling that I had just woken from a really weird and twisted dream.
Bravo, as always! )
Very atmospheric story, grabs you from the get go. Makes me want to find out more about the city of Midnight.
I have been a fan of John Urbancik's for a few years now, so I snap up everything he offers here without even checking what it's supposed to be about. Usually it's his creepy romanticism that grabs me, his descriptive prose and the melancholy horror he evokes with it.
This time around, though, it was just the tension! A stranger has invaded the backstage of an illusionist's burlesque show, disturbing every member of the company with his presence alone. Who is he? Amid Urbancik's slightly cynical meditations on performance and beauty and sexuality and the hollowness of the power they bring, we find out, or at least we think we do under the influence of slow, careful, hypnotic prose as we are.*
And there is a monkey somewhere in the rafters...
All this and more than a little hint of the magic that Robertson Davies and Erin Morgenstern brought to their own stories of stage illusionists, magic and the theater. Loved it!
*Note the prose could have used maybe one more going-over, but the occasional flub was never bad enough to merit losing a star.
To say that Pocketful of Smoke Fistful of Glass reminds me a little of the HBO series Carnivale doesn't really do the book justice; it is off the mark in that Pocketful's setting and characters are more prosperous and less transient than Carnivale's. But it's the only comparison I can draw to convey that the book's characters embody the plot and envelope the reader until he's subsumed into their world. The plot is deceptively simple there's a theater in the town of Midnight (so named because the sun never rises on it) and in that theater there is a tight knit group of performers whose identities are as changeful and mysterious as their abandoned pasts. A stranger intrudes on this group, a mysterious man who patiently sits out the shows in the backstage shadows. Who invited him, who he's visiting (The Illusionist? The Contortionist? The Exhibitionist? The Grand Madame, herself?), is anyone's guess. But it's clear he has an agenda. The variety show's smooth pace warps out of character until it eventually reveals the stranger's mission, to the peril of the theater and its inhabitants.
Pocketful of Smoke Fistful of Glass will feel slow if you're used to an action-movie pace and lots of gore and violence. But if you like immersing yourself in a strange landscape that changes shape and color from the first page to the last, you'll like this story. It's meant to be savored, not charged through. So relax with it.
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