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"Houdini's Box explores four different escape artists. There is the case history of the little girl who is oddly committed to playing her own wayward version of hide-and-seek. There is Harry Houdini, "the greatest magician the world has ever seen," an assimilated Jew and immigrant escapee who compulsively reinvents and re-enacts his own confinement.
There is a patient of Phillips's who has come to him after being badgered by his (ex-)girlfriend, who says she wants to help "his next ex." He is a man who has become entranced, not with woman as object of desire, but with flight from woman, a man hypnotized by the infinite freedom of escape, always arriving at the place from which he is escaping. And finally, there is the poet Emily Dickinson, who for the last twenty years of her life found freedom in self-imposed solitary confinement."--BOOK JACKET.
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Houdini's Box
November 18, 2002, Faber and Faber
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Houdini's box: on the arts of escape
2001, Faber and Faber
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Houdini's Box: The Art of Escape
July 24, 2001, Pantheon, Pantheon Books
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 159).
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