Magical Mystery Tour - Rigorous study under a master conjurer and spiritual odyssey intertwine in a young man's journey through India.

From: The World and I | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Roberta Rubenstein is professor of literature at American University. She is the coeditor, with Charles Larson, of Worlds of Fiction (Macmillan, 1993). 

 Book Info:SORCERER 'S APPRENTICE 
Tahir Shah 
 Publisher:New York: Arcade, 2001 
323 pp., $25.95

The title of an album inspired by the Beatles' travels in India is an apt phrase to describe Sorcerer's Apprentice, Tahir Shah's engaging exploration of magic, illusion, and conjuring as they are practiced in India by a remarkable group of holy men, charlatans, and individuals who are neither quite one nor the other. ...

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