This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Publisher : Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schusterīook Synopsis The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini by : Joe Posnanskiĭownload or read book The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini written by Joe Posnanski and published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. There he lives the life of Henry Houdini and in doing so learns the tricks of his trade as well as falling in love with Houdini’s wife, Bess, who ultimately teaches him how to successfully cope with his life. On a whim he dons the jacket and is instantly thrust in the spiritual and vaudevillian worlds of Houdini. While going through his uncle’s rent-controlled apartment, he chances upon a strait jacket that is supposedly the property of the greatest escape artist of all time-Henry Houdini. He is besieged with a plethora of insurmountable problems: a severely autistic son, a horse-obsessed daughter, a demanding cliental, a looming property tax bill, an exhausted wife, and a recently deceased uncle. Book excerpt: Ralph Snyder is a 21st century dentist living in Great Neck Long Island. This book was released on with total page 40 pages.
This is more likely 1917 based on the record of Alexandra Carlisle in the play “The Country Cousin.Book Synopsis Houdini's Straitjacket by : JAMES TRIVERSĭownload or read book Houdini's Straitjacket written by JAMES TRIVERS and published by Club Lighthouse Publishing. Harry Houdini escaping a straitjacket while suspended upside down in Manhattan (Broadway and 46th Street, New York: 1907).Image credit: Ephemeral New York – When Houdini hung upside-down over Broadway Harry Houdini on liberation « Entersection Says:.I love the part in the novel ‘Ragtime’ when Houdini is hanging upside down and sees a guy in a window giving him the finger.
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