The Motion of Puppets: A Novel

Author: Keith Donohue
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Category: Contemporary Fiction, Horror, Horror, Fantasy, Fantasy Books
Book Format: Paperback

In the Old City of Quebec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that is never open. She is spending her summer working as an acrobat with the cirque while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Late one night, Kay fears someone is following her home. Surprised to see that the lights of the toy shop are on and the door is open, she takes shelter inside. The next morning Theo wakes up to discover his wife is missing. Under police suspicion and frantic at her disappearance, he obsessively searches the streets of the Old City. Meanwhile, Kay has been transformed into a puppet, and is now a prisoner of the back room of the Quatre Mains, trapped with an odd assemblage of puppets from all over the world who can only come alive between the hours of midnight and dawn. The only way she can return to the human world is if Theo can find her and recognize her in her new form. So begins a dual odyssey: of a husband determined to find his wife, and of a woman trapped in a magical world where her life is not her own.

About Keith Donohue
KEITH DONOHUE is an American novelist, the author of the national bestseller The Stolen Child, Angels of Destruction, Centuries of June, and The Boy Who Drew Monsters. He also writes reviews for The Washington Post. Donohue has a PhD in English with a specialization in modern Irish literature and wrote the introduction to Flann O'Brien: The Complete Novels. He lives in Maryland.

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SKU BK-9781250141194
Barcode # 9781250141194
Brand St Martin's Press
Artist / Author Keith Donohue
Shipping Weight 0.2900kg
Shipping Width 0.150m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.230m
Assembled Length 22.600m
Assembled Height 2.000m
Assembled Width 14.500m
Type Paperback

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