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The Illusionist is the sensuous and haunting tale of Dean Lily, an amateur magician whose arrival in Sparta, New York, upsets the landscape of this small town on the wane. Dean, a master of the sleight of hand, is also a master of seduction and charm—which becomes apparent as he woos and wins the hearts of more than one of Sparta's female citizens.
But the enigmatic newcomer has more to hide than the tricks of his trade—his mysterious identity as a transgendered person, and his closely guarded privacy arouse suspicion and jealousy—and while he cures Sparta of its midwinter ennui, he also unleashes a destructive force that rocks the foundations of this town to its core. Inspired in part by a true story, The Illusionist is a fiercely erotic novel that thwarts conventions of gender and love.
- Sales Rank: #197089 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-08-25
- Released on: 2015-08-25
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From Library Journal
Dean Lily, amateur magician and androgynous scoundrel, drifts into the economically depressed, drug-infested town of Sparta, New York. The townspeople are both mesmerized and repelled by Dean's blurry gender and his ease in wooing and wounding one faithful young woman after another, each of whom swears he is the most tender of manly lovers. Of course, he is not. Dean Lily, born Lily Dean, was miserable as a girl until she found some psychosexual peace once she started binding her breasts and dressing and acting as a man. In Sparta, Dean enrages a pair of drunken lowlifes who, desperate to show an old girlfriend that Dean is a fraud, rape and threaten to kill him if he goes to the police, thus setting in motion the inevitable tragedy. Based loosely on a true hate crime in Humboldt, Nebraska, Smith's novel is a deeply disturbing and provocative study not only of the transsexual psyche but of the meaning of romantic love and its attendant powers of denial.?Beth E. Andersen, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., Mich.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
The unfathomable mysteries of sexual identity and charisma permeate this dark, meditative tale of a transsexual's murder in upstate New York, by the author of The Hard Rain (1980) and Remember This (1989)--inspired by an actual incident in Nebraska. It's a chilly October night in quiet Sparta, New York, when Chrissie, a local community-college student, first spots Dean Lily performing magic tricks at the local bar. Though the regulars can't help but gather around the magician's table, there's something about this slight, bright-eyed stranger that makes them vaguely uncomfortable. As Chrissie learns once Dean, who's been living in his truck, gratefully moves into her downtown apartment, Dean Lily is really Lily Dean--a man born in a woman's body about 20 years ago in another small town near the Canadian border. Surprisingly, Chrissie doesn't care much that Dean is physically female. For reasons this plain, boyfriendless part-time nursing-home employee can't begin to fathom, she's too strongly attracted to Dean's emotional intensity, butterfly-like elusiveness, and essential strangeness to judge him according to the usual standards. Instead, she watches uneasily as he seduces her boss at the nursing home--a gawky single mother just barely surviving in a shack outside town- -and then mischievously helps him betray his lover by setting up a meeting with the famously unattainable local beauty queen. With each encounter, Dean touches on sexual needs and primal passions previously buried deep beneath the surface of his partners' monotonous daily life--so effectively, in fact, that little time passes before one man's jealous rage and sexual terror explode to destroy Dean and devastate the people who claim to love him most. Smith's harsh but deadly accurate evocation of late-20th- century rural life almost upstages the violent drama in the foreground. Still, both prove memorable in this haunting exploration of a senseless and brutal murder. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Review
Chicago Tribune Beautifully written. With this haunting book, Smith tells a wonderful tale and raises provocative questions.
Stephen King Mesmerizing, erotic suspense.
Alan Cheuse All Things Considered A powerful novel about sexual desire and social disorder.
Edward Hower The New York Times Book Review A skillfully written novel. And its greatest strength is the sensitivity with which Smith explores the complexities of love.
Detour magazine Smoke-and-mirrors prose that would dazzle Houdini...Smith has written a truly chilling winter's tale.
Carolyn See The Washington Post Dinitia Smith has taken this "true" story and given its characters introspection and sad dignity.
Carole Goldberg The Hartford Courant [Smith] nails the fading ambience of a town that has lost its reason for being. And she shows poignantly why...women will seek and sustain the illusion of love.
Maureen Corrigan NPR Fresh Air [A] quicksilver novel in which nothing, not even sexual identity, is unwavering...Smith has stripped away an even greater illusion: that human sexuality is straightforward and fathomable, normative and neat.
Rosellen Brown The Illusionist is a terrifying story of the ways good people can follow their most generous instincts straight into tragedy. Dinitia Smith's novel makes the bizarre plausible while it heightens the ordinary. I was caught in its web, beguiled from first page to last.
Larry Kramer A haunting, heartbreaking, utterly unforgettable novel. What an overwhelming accomplishment of the imagination!
Sapphire Impossible to put down, Dinitia Smith's new novel shatters silences as it delves brilliantly into the lives of America's cast-off white youth. White trash, transgender, single mothers, addicts, and petty criminals come alive and step out of stereotypes that have rendered them invisible and live on the pages of this courageous and fiercely erotic novel.
Hilma Wolitzer Dinitia Smith is the true illusionist. This remarkable novel challenges all of our notions about gender and love.
Judith Rossner The Illusionist is an engrossing story about people's seeing without seeing what's in front of their eyes, loving without understanding the object of their affections and, finally, being destroyed by a force that only seems to be beside the point.
Most helpful customer reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
eerie similarities, but no credit to the real life "Dean"
By A Customer
Because I already know all about the true story that inspired this novel, the book was nearly ruined for me. All eerie similarities to Brandon's real life aside (the accidental phone call and the rollerskating date, Brandon's girlfriend bailing him out of jail with a check her mother intended for the hairdresser, being put in a psychiatric ward after swallowing an entire bottle of antibiotics when his first serious girlfriend dumped him when she found out her boyfriend was really a girl...etc. ), this book is very good. You can't put it down- I read it in two days.
I was only disappointed that there wasn't even a paragraph about Brandon at the end or beginning of the book (but there was the little disclaimer paragraph that states any similarities to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.? ....or do they put that in all books?).
Like the movie "Boys Don't Cry", this book recounts the character's, in this case, Dean's, last month alive. So if the end seems rushed, it is. That's how it happened.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
An Interesting read that will keep you going
By douglas k ritter
Proof positive, again, that truth is stranger than fiction, The Illusionist is a fictionalized version of the murder of Brandon Teena in Falls City, Nebraska. It makes for a gripping (and at times gruesome read), but the story is true -- and the subject of the new documentary movie,"The Brandon Teena Story", (produced and directed by Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir) and probably not coming to the neighborhood multiplex. The story is also proof (if incidents like the recent one in Jasper, Texas weren't enough), that sordid happenings occur in small town America just like in the big cities.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A depressing tale of doomed one-dimensional characters .
By A Customer
The reader must check his brains at the door to stay with this one. From the main character being referred to as Dean, Deane and Duane to flies buzzing after a holiday blizzard there are problems with this tome. The characters are hard to picture much less sympathize with and the action drags to an inevitable climax but no real resolution. It is frustrating after investing the time to read this that it leaves me shaking my head in wonder that there is no real clear ending.It was like reading through smoked glass or maybe it was censored because something is definitely missing.
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