Masters of Illusions: A Novel of the Connecticut Circus Fire

by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Book Overview

With novel after novel, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith has proven to be an American writer of great depth and extraordinary talent. Her stories have the stunning clarity of 20/20 vision that sees the inner forces behind human behavior along with the outer events that shape our world. This newest work, Masters of Illusion, is a stunning accomplishment. With a reporter's eye, Smith re-creates an unforgettable tragedy, the Hartford circus fire of 1944 that left...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446518069
• ISBN13: 9780446518062
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Unguessable ending to a riveting psychological thriller

This book springboards from the real-life fire 50 years ago that killed hundreds of people and destroyed the Ringling Bros. circus when it played in Hartford. One child survived, grew up and married a mysteriously solicitous fireman. This is the story, not only of their marriage, but of the secrets that, like one layer of an onion after another, peel off and reveal, finally, the unguessable ending. I couldn't stop turning the pages