All the World's a Wonder

A playwright possessed by her muses, an actress desperate to succeed, and a doctor haunted by a lost love. Three people cross time and space to meet through the playwright's bizarre creative process: to create, the playwright must become her characters; to tell her tragic story, the actress must speak from the grave; to heal his harrowing past, the doctor must surrender to his patient - the playwright.

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All the World's a Wonder

A playwright possessed by her muses, an actress desperate to succeed, and a doctor haunted by a lost love. Three people cross time and space to meet through the playwright's bizarre creative process: to create, the playwright must become her characters; to tell her tragic story, the actress must speak from the grave; to heal his harrowing past, the doctor must surrender to his patient - the playwright.

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All the World's a Wonder

All the World's a Wonder

by Melia McClure

Narrated by Kelley Jo Burke

Unabridged — 8 hours, 5 minutes

All the World's a Wonder

All the World's a Wonder

by Melia McClure

Narrated by Kelley Jo Burke

Unabridged — 8 hours, 5 minutes

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Overview

A playwright possessed by her muses, an actress desperate to succeed, and a doctor haunted by a lost love. Three people cross time and space to meet through the playwright's bizarre creative process: to create, the playwright must become her characters; to tell her tragic story, the actress must speak from the grave; to heal his harrowing past, the doctor must surrender to his patient - the playwright.


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"Melia McClure weaves magical characterization and vulnerable emotion in a story that resounds like a thunderclap." 
— Kenneth Mark Hoover, author of the weird west novels Haxan and Quaternity

“What if the creative process, the way characters live in the imagination, wasn’t imagination but magic—a haunting? What would the life of the artist be like? In All the World’s a Wonder, we are introduced to a playwright whose fever-dream existence grapples with this very question. Both tormented and wickedly funny, she walks the tightrope of twisting ribbon that is time and space, destruction and redemption. Author Melia McClure is a razor-sharp explorer of the surreal, incomprehensible constructs of inner and outer realities, journeying through the perilous worlds of memory, guilt, loneliness, desire, and hope with an unflinching eye. Shifting seamlessly between playscript and prose and leaping from the violence of lost love to the salvation of storytelling, this novel reveals the staggering possibilities of the artist’s mind and the human heart.”
— Cathie Borrie, author of the long hello: Memory, My Mother, and Me

"Compulsive, kinetic, and visceral. McClure brings to hectic life the factions of an artist’s heart, littering the way with secrets, half truths, and a movable feast of unreliable narrators, leaving us all to wonder: what do our muses get up to on the other side of the mirror?"
— S.M. Beiko, award-winning author of The Stars of Mount Quixx

Product Details

BN ID: 2940160014432
Publisher: Radiant Press
Publication date: 05/19/2023
Edition description: Unabridged
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