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The Escape Artist

novel by Wagoner

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In David Wagoner
…his fourth and best-known novel, The Escape Artist, about a boy trying to make it as an amateur magician. The story was adapted and released as a feature film by executive producer Francis Ford Coppola in 1982 but received only mediocre reviews.
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