![]() ![]() The magic of Marshall France has extended far beyond the printed page.leaving them with a terrifying task to undertake. But slowly they begin to see that something fantastic and horrible is happening. Young prep-school teacher Thomas, son of deceased film star Stephen Abbey, prefers to idolize another expired great: that celebrated but mysterious writer of brilliant children's fantasies, Marshall France. ![]() Warned in advance that France's family may oppose them, they're surprised to find France's daughter warmly welcoming instead. 1, 1980 A moderately amusing Twilight Zone-r, somewhat blunted by a talky, ambling pace. Now Thomas and Saxony have come to France's hometown, the dreamy Midwestern town of Galen, Missouri, to write France's biography. ![]() 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. 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. A novel about how terrifying that would be. Have you ever loved a magical book above all others? Have you ever wished the magic were real? Welcome to The Land of Laughs. ![]()
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