Ebook {Epub PDF} Magic by William Goldman

 · William Goldman is an Academy Award–winning author of screenplays, plays, memoirs, and novels. His first novel, The Temple of Gold (), was followed by the script for the Broadway army comedy Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (). 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. William Goldman is a very capable professional writer. The writing is tight, the jumps between dialogs fluid, the flashbacks and the present merge seamless, and yet There is no magic. This story heavily borrows from many classics, such as The Diary of a Madman, Psycho, Compulsion, and many others/5(). Magic, adapted into a late 's movie starring Anthony Hopkins, is as much a romantic tragedy as a horror novel. 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).

William Goldman (Aug - Novem) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He first came to prominence in the s as a novelist before turning to screenwriting. He won Academy Awards for his screenplays Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid () and All the President's Men ().. His other well-known works include his thriller novel Marathon Man ( "One of those can't-put-it-down-until-the-last-page-is-turned monsters that has readers all over the country missing sleep."—Minneapolis Tribune Corky is a brilliant entertainer with a bright future ahead of him. He has good looks, many women, a. Magic by William Goldman (, Hardcover) Be the first to write a review. About this product. Current slide 1 of 1- Top picked items. New (other) $ Pre-owned. $ Make an offer.

William Goldman is a very capable professional writer. The writing is tight, the jumps between dialogs fluid, the flashbacks and the present merge seamless, and yet There is no magic. This story heavily borrows from many classics, such as The Diary of a Madman, Psycho, Compulsion, and many others. The hero is young and up-coming magician at the crucial point that can catapult his career into the rarified heights of national stardom. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Magic. Charles "Corky" Withers is on the verge of hitting the big time. His magic act includes the winning hook of a heckler/ventriloquist dummy named Fats. Unfortunately, Corky's acting a bit erratic, too -- sleeping with overnight pickups, refusing to sign the contracts his pushy agent Ben "The Postman" Greene has been getting him -- and he escapes to the upstate New York of his boyhood, there to encounter ex-cheerleader Peggy Ann Snow, the woman of his. Magic, adapted into a late 's movie starring Anthony Hopkins, is as much a romantic tragedy as a horror novel. 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 identity disorder a disorder that bizarrely manifests itself in the form of Corky's.