The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville
The Ventriloquist's Tale

Pauline Melville

The Ventriloquist's Tale

Pauline Melville

357 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

fiction magical realism reflective slow-paced
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"The whole purpose of magic is the fulfilment and intensification of desire," claims the ventriloquist-narrator as he tells his stories of love and catastrophe. The novel is a parable of miscegenation and racial exclusiveness, of nature defying cu...

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