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The White Death: An Illusion by Gabriel Urza

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“Gabriel Urza’s latest feat is a study of humanity’s two best tricks: death and love. This darkly lush novella is written with a miniaturist’s eye for detail and a mystic’s eye for mystery. The character is someone Charles Dickens might’ve written, if Dickens had ever been to Vegas. This gorgeous novella left me exuberant with awe.”
—Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus and Battleborn
“Like the genius boy-magician in his tale, Gabriel Urza has pulled off a dazzling feat: a digressive metafictional elegy pulsing with old-fashioned storytelling satisfaction.”
—Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks

The illusionist Benjamin Vaughn is fourteen years old when he dies under mysterious circumstances at the height of his short career. In the wake of his death, the life of this brilliant yet reclusive prodigy known as “The Great Bendini” is meticulously chronicled by an unnamed narrator who encountered Vaughn when he himself was a boy... learn more