The Spirit Cabinet Author:Paul Quarrington By turns outrageous, whimsical, comic, and melancholy, Paul Quarrington's The Spirit Cabinet is a story of love, chaos, and spiritual renewal set in the carnival world of Las Vegas entertainers. Yet "this is not a book about magicians and their pursuit of magic," writes Alan Beaton in the National Post, "it is a book about human beings, a... more »nd their pursuit of faith." After a long, slow climb out of the strip clubs and fleshpots of Europe, Jurgen and Rudolfo have hit the big time in Las Vegas, headlining a magic act as slick and well-oiled as their own buffed and usually half-naked bodies. Rudolfo is content orchestrating the spectacle and attempting to twin his soul with Jurgen's. But Jurgen hungers for more -- and finds it in a musty, mysterious collection of magicians' paraphernalia once belonging to Harry Houdini. With the knowledge he finds there, and his own faith in the unknown, Jurgen becomes the miracle-working saint of the Las Vegas strip. In The Spirit Cabinet, Quarrington takes dead aim at the place in the human heart that yearns for wonder and miracles.« less