Magician

Ordinary men and women and their everyday dilemmas are the deceptively simple material for this award-winning collection of stories from the author of the critically-acclaimed novel The Girls Next Door. Peter Turchi reveals a new virtuosity in eleven powerfully wrought stories that depict characters of all ages struggling to make the right choices, and often surprising themselves. In "Magician," a beautiful young actress weighs the enticing, frightening possibilities for the future...
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Ordinary men and women and their everyday dilemmas are the deceptively simple material for this award-winning collection of stories from the author of the critically-acclaimed novel The Girls Next Door. Peter Turchi reveals a new virtuosity in eleven powerfully wrought stories that depict characters of all ages struggling to make the right choices, and often surprising themselves. In "Magician," a beautiful young actress weighs the enticing, frightening possibilities for the future with a 52-year-old-man. In "Alligator" an adolescent girl begins to understand the attractions of sex, alcohol, and deception during a family vacation. And in the subtle, disturbing "Everything I Need" a young man uprooted from a small town in Arizona seeks companionship in Chicago by attaching himself to the anonymous community of a radio call-in show. Turchi's spare yet haunting style is perfectly attuned to the rhythms and textures of quiet lives in crisis.