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The action of the magicians lie alternates between a single night in 1905, with arden imprisoned by officer holt, and the story of her life that arden is telling him, which ranges over a number of years. Lev grossman is the author of the new york times bestselling novels the magicians, the magician king, and the magicians land. Arden describes growing up in a small farming town, working as a servant in a mansion, moving to new york and falling. Water for elephants meets the night circus in the magician s lie, a novel in which the countrys most notoriou.
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