{"product_id":"9781429934176","title":"Magic Time: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA prize-winning Southern master storyteller weaves a riveting tale of love, mystery and justice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Doug Marlette last turned to fiction, Valerie Sayers rejoiced in \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e: \"\u003ci\u003eThe Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e [is] a great story—exuberant, proud, myth-challenging—and Marlette has a great, Dickensian time with the telling.\" Pat Conroy saluted \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e as the finest first novel to come out of North Carolina since \u003ci\u003eLook Homeward, Angel\u003c\/i\u003e. Studs Turkel called it \"enthralling.\" Kaye Gibbons marveled at its \"extraordinary grace [and] humor.\" And the Southeast Booksellers Association gave \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e the 2002 Book Award for Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarlette's new novel, \u003ci\u003eMagic Time\u003c\/i\u003e, is a spellbinding stew of history, murder, courtroom drama, humor, love, betrayal, and justice. Moving between New York City and the New South of the early 1990s, with flashbacks to Mississippi's cataclysmic Freedom Summer of 1964, \u003ci\u003eMagic Time \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003etells the story of \u003c\/i\u003eNew York newspaper columnist Carter Ransom, a son of Mississippi, who had the great fortune and terrible luck of falling in love that summer of ‘64 with a New York–born civil rights worker who wound up being killed alongside three coworkers. Carter's father, the local judge, presided over the first trial of the murders. But now there's evidence that the original trial was flawed, even fraudulent. And the question, among many others, is whether the good judge was knowingly involved in a cover-up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagic Time\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare thing: a page-turner whose driving plot line is matched by the depth of its moral vision.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153765777648,"sku":"9781429934176","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429934176_p0.jpg?v=1769902512","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429934176","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}