Julie's review
by George: A Novel by Wesley Stace
Wesley Stace (a.k.a. John Wesley Harding) is a very good storyteller. He tells his story with two voices: George, a ventriloquist’s boy in the 1930s and 40s, and George, his namesake who has grown up in a family of showbiz royalty that is now on the wane. The descriptions of their vaudeville careers emphasize the sweat behind the glamorous façade; this dichotomy turns out to be a theme for George (the real boy), since many things are not what they first seem.
