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The Myth Man

出版	Viking, 1994
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / LiteraryFiction / City Life
ISBN	06708420289780670842025
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=G2xbAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This exhilarating novel gives us penetrating insight into the realities and delusions of men and power through the eyes of a mute and perceptive eleven-year-old girl. Rikki Nelson - abused, willfully silent, but curious and resilient - is abandoned by her father to a theater troupe of modern-day gypsies led by an enchantingly charismatic artistic genius, Sasha Volotny. With Sasha's collaborator and brother, Charles, a world-famous ex-drag queen, as her nanny, Rikki Nelson is nurtured into adolescence by her eccentric communal family amid the increasingly perilous carnival atmosphere of the late 1960s and early '70s. Sasha's charismatic brilliance binds his actors to him, as to a guru: his authority and creative genius cast a spell and convince his followers that he alone knows the alchemy that will turn their individual pain into collective triumph. Their electrifying "metaphysical vaudeville" show The Myth Man dazzles audiences and critics, bringing fame and countercultural adulation, first in New York, then abroad, as they push on, taking ever-higher risks, attempting to force theater and reality to become one. As the level of personal commitment and sacrifice is raised. Sasha's quest ultimately leads them on a trek deep into the Amazon, where they are plunged into a Theater of Madness.