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Louise Welsh's The Bullet Trick (Canongate) is original and engrossing.
· The Bullet Trick by Louise Welsh is published on 20 July by Canongate.
Like her mesmerizing first novel, "The Cutting Room," Louise Welsh's Gothic noir thriller, THE BULLET TRICK (Canongate, $23), delivers both the erotic tingle and the frisson of revulsion some of us feel when exploring a decadent subculture.
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Was it the conjuror Mephisto, famed for his bullet-catching trick?
"This isn't magic; it's a conversation," says Rob Drummond in this remarkable, multilayered and utterly gripping show inspired by the infamous bullet-catch trick.
It's a remarkable and multi-layered mediation on death, self-harm and danger, woven around the famous and sometimes deadly bullet-catch trick.
At Sydney festival, British performer Rob Drummond's Bullet Catch – a participatory magic show about a trick with a notorious fatality rate – was quiet, disquieting and profoundly moving.
And after the third time he escapes from the death ray device, the contracting chamber with walls of spikes, and the giant custom-built Cuisinart you'd think the Super Villains (who we're told are the most brilliant minds in the world) would get the idea that perhaps a pistol and one bullet might just do the trick.
They call this the "Flashbang" because the ladies have to show off the titty-twins before they can make the gun go "Bang!" If the assailant isn't knocked out by NRA-style stretch marks and bumpy areolas, a bullet will definitely do the trick.
Joan: The magic bullet?
Hardly a magic bullet.
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