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Luci LaBang, a drag queen whose career is trending down, is invigorated by a new challenge: to take a raw, untrained young actor and turn her into someone fit to share the theatrical stage with Luci... The story has an All About Eve vibe to it, but it's pretty clear that's intentional: Morrison seems to be doing a riff on that famous film, but he's added a few new elements, such a magic and the occult.... Overall the prose sparkles with wit and Luci's unique turns of phrase. An engaging and occasionally horrifying story that delivers the goods. A middle-aged drag queen spins a phantasmagorical yarn about an ill-fated theatrical production and her uncanny protégé in this debut novel.... Morrison has created a captivating and unforgettable narrator in Luci, and every page is thick with bons mots and appealingly lurid descriptions of Glasgow and its denizens. Whether there is too much of a good thing in the novel’s 448 pages depends on the reader’s stamina.... A sparkling, self-indulgent novel that revels in the transformative and grotesque. Comics writer Morrison (Supergods) debuts with an intricate and fantastical take on All About Eve starring an aging drag queen and her ambitious protégé. The not-entirely-reliable guide through this “haunted arcade of shifting selves and liquid identities” is Luci LaBang...a master of an occult-influenced, perception-bending art called The Glamour.... Luda is desperate and determined to learn The Glamour’s “sleight of mind,” particularly the ability to disappear into someone else. She becomes a sort of sorcerer’s apprentice until, perhaps unsurprisingly, her sinister motives are revealed. Though the madcap theatricality can sometimes feel a bit overwrought, Morrison’s dense and often dazzling sentences brim with Wilde-esque wordplay. For readers willing to go the distance, magic awaits.
"Luci LaBang is a star: for decades this drag artist has cast a spell over screen and stage. Now she's the leading lady in a smash hit musical. But as time takes its toll, Luci fears her star is beginning to dim. When Luci's co-star meets with a mysterious accident, a new ingenue shimmers onto the scene: Luda, whose fantastical beauty and sinister charm infatuate Luci immediately... and who bears a striking resemblance to herself at a much younger age. Luda asks Luci to share the secrets of her stardom, which is more than charisma. Because Luci is a master of the The Glamour, a mysterious magical discipline that draws on sex, drugs, and the occult for its trancelike effects. But as Luci tutors her young protegee in the art of magic, their fellow actors and crew members begin meeting with untimely ends. Now Luci wonders if Luda has mastered The Glamour all too well... and exploited it to achieve her dark ambitions. What follows is a descent into the demimonde of Gasglow, a fantastical city of dreams, and into the nightmarish heart of Luda herself: a femme fatale, a phenomenon, a monster, and perhaps, the greatest star of them all"-- No library descriptions found. |
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