Nicholas Christopher
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Nicholas Christopher (1951-) is an American writer, author of 5 novels and 7 books of poetry, as well as a classic account of Film noir. He is also a published critic and academic of literature.
His novels can be considered magic realist.
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- The Soloist (1986) recounts a concert pianists slow rediscovery of his art and his solipsism
- Veronica (1996) is the account of a battle between rival magicians set in a Manhattan that may or may not be ours. Features the memorable notion that each skyscraper has a matching quarry somewhere.
- A Trip to the Stars (2000) tells of the separation and eventual reuniting of a boy and his aunt after his kidnapping, each of whom goes on their own epic odyssey
- Franklin Flyer (2002) is the biographical novel of an American inventor told against the background of the Depression and the rise of Fascism
- The Bestiary (2007) tells the story of a hunt for a mythical bestiary, an account of the animals on the Second Ark, taking in the experience of the Vietnam war, and featuring mystical animal liberationists
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