![]() Following the life, awkward childhood and desperate career of Corky, a professional magician, much of the book's focus is on how his mind is torn between two worlds: a life of success, fame, love and freedom, or a life of mental illness, rejection, illegality and infamy with his dissociative /5(K). Magic, adapted into a late 's movie starring Anthony Hopkins, is as much a romantic tragedy as a horror novel. This story heavily borrows from many classics, such as The Diary of a Madman, Psycho, Compulsion, and many others/5(). The writing is tight, the jumps between dialogs fluid, the flashbacks and the present merge seamless, and yet There is no magic. William Goldman is a very capable professional writer. ![]() ![]() He went on to write the screenplays for many acclaimed films, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid () and All the President’s Men (), for Brand: Random House Publishing Group. His first novel, The Temple of Gold (), was followed by the script for the Broadway army comedy Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (). ![]() William Goldman is an Academy Award–winning author of screenplays, plays, memoirs, and novels. ![]()
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