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Original Title:	The Land of Laughs
ISBN:	0312873115 (ISBN13: 9780312873110)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Prix Tour-Apollo Award (1989)

The Land of Laughs

Jonathan Carroll

Paperback | Pages: 253 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 5356 Users | 434 Reviews

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Title	:	The Land of Laughs
Author	:	Jonathan Carroll
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 253 pages
Published	:	February 10th 2001 by Orb Books (first published September 26th 1980)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Horror. Magical Realism. Urban Fantasy. Mystery

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Have you ever loved a magical book above all others? Have you ever wished the magic were real? Welcome to The Land of Laughs. A novel about how terrifying that would be.

Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure son of a film star, doesn't know who he is or what he wants--in life, in love, or in his relationship with the strange and intense Saxony Gardner. What he knows is that in his whole life nothing has touched him so deeply as the novels of Marshall France, a reclusive author of fabulous children's tales who died at forty-four.

Now Thomas and Saxony have come to France's hometown, the dreamy Midwestern town of Galen, Missouri, to write France's biography. Warned in advance that France's family may oppose them, they're surprised to find France's daughter warmly welcoming instead. But slowly they begin to see that something fantastic and horrible is happening. The magic of Marshall France has extended far beyond the printed page...leaving them with a terrifying task to undertake.

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This cult classic--a bigger hit in Poland than in the author's native USA--is a strange novel, and a very interesting one. At the beginning, it seems to be a piece of realistic fiction, narrating the efforts of a high school English instructor in his 30's and his researcher girlfriend to write the biography of a deceased children's book author they idolize. But when they get to the author's hometown, things get weirder and weirder--and the book itself gets stranger and stranger. Unlike many

Jonathan Carroll is a writer whose name I have been hearing over the years, but whose fiction I've never tried. An American living in Vienna for many years, he has developed a quiet but steadfast cult following - much like the city itself, with its with its unlimited supply of quiet coffee houses - the famous Viennese cafés, described by UNESCO as places "where time and space are consumed, but only the coffee is found on the bill". Legend has it that soldiers from the Polish-Habsburg army found

Five stars here. Five stars there. I'm shameless. Maybe it's because I'm impressed by almost anyone that can write this well (including so many of you GRers!). It could also be that I'm on a recent streak of really awesome books. Or maybe I don't feel the star-rating system means much one way or the other except to reinforce some deep-seated reward expectation at receiveing gold stars for a job well done.Either way, this is my favorite Jonathan Carroll so far, by far. Subtle, sleight-of-hand

Someone just handed this book to me the other day. I'd never heard of Carroll and never of this book, and yet here I am two days later writing my review because I couldn't put it down. Don't misunderstand, it's not the perfect example of pure literature, it has its flaws - and yet I was entranced and excited from page one. There was just something about the way he moves his details through the story that captured my attention in a way that I still can't describe.I felt very strongly about the

Five stars here. Five stars there. I'm shameless. Maybe it's because I'm impressed by almost anyone that can write this well (including so many of you GRers!). It could also be that I'm on a recent streak of really awesome books. Or maybe I don't feel the star-rating system means much one way or the other except to reinforce some deep-seated reward expectation at receiveing gold stars for a job well done.Either way, this is my favorite Jonathan Carroll so far, by far. Subtle, sleight-of-hand

When you're an English lit teacher, with a little creative writing background, can afford to take a semester off (your late father was a very popular actor,who left you a comfortable inheritence), to go talk to the daughter of your favorite childhood author (who is a God in your eyes) to see if you can write his biography. You head for the midwestern/small town/Mayberry look alike - Galen, MO. Then you start to realize, this isn't like where Opie lived after all.This is one of the books I have

This book most definitely would have deserved 5 shining stars had it not been for the weakest love line ever (and the author should have revealed a bit more about the female bookish-nerdish sidekick, I got a feeling as if she's got a lot to hide).(and I wish the main character hadn't been such a self-important jerk sometimes!)Apart from it, it's almost perfect. What I liked the most was the ending, which was beautiful and scary and cool. I liked the whole 80's gadgetless atmosphere, when people