Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory - ISBN: 9781786482778
Paperback
A family’s faded magic rekindles in unexpected, hilariously dysfunctional ways.

Spoonbenders

A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice - the perfect summer read!

$41.28

  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    12 June 2018

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Summary

The BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice

Bought for TV by Paramount

“Funny and charming … tailor-made for summer … magical” - New York Times Book Review

“Hilarious, freewheeling” - Guardian

“Gloriously imaginative” - Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

They were the Amazing Telemachus Family, who in the mid-1970s achieved widespread fame for their magic and mind reading act. That is, until the magic decided to disappear one night, live on …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781786482778
ISBN-10:1786482770
Author:Daryl Gregory
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:riverrun
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:12 June 2018
Weight:290g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 25mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Laugh out loud. - Daily TelegraphPure escapism. - New York TimesUtterly charming and effortlessly witty. - SFXA perfect summer read.

Laugh out loud. - Daily Telegraph

Pure escapism. - New York Times

Utterly charming and effortlessly witty. - SFX

A perfect summer read.

About The Author

Daryl Gregory

Daryl Gregory grew up in Chicago and has lived in various other cities within a few miles of Interstate 80, including his current home, Oakland, California. He’s been a high school teacher, a technical writer, and a programmer, and now writes full time, occasionally dabbling in comics and videogame scripts.

His short novel We Are All Completely Fine won the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson award, and was a finalist for the Nebula, Sturgeon, and Locus awards. The novel Afterparty was a National Public Radio and Kirkus Best Fiction book of the year. Spoonbenders is his first work of literary fiction.

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