Beautiful Somewhere Else

the long version

"Ever since he was an aspiring teen magician, thirty-eight-year-old Paul Brickner has been obsessed with the enigmatic Sung Soo. Also known as the "Wondrous Chinese Wizard," Sung Soo was a famous con artist and illusionist whose final vanishing act in 1919 mystifies the public to this day. Paul has been performing his own personal vanishing act for much of his adult life, trying to escape his anxieties, responsibilities, fears, and most of all: the guilt he feels about the tragic ending of his first marriage."--BOOK JACKET.