Five hundred keys: A novel

by Michael Carin

Book by Carin, Michael

240 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1980

About the author

Michael Carin trained as a political theorist at McGill University, where he also studied under the godfather of Canadian literature, Hugh MacLennan. Mr. Carin served for many years as Editor-In-Chief of Montreal Business Magazine, and is the author of several novels including Five Hundred Keys, The Kremlin Papers and the work of alternate history Churchill At Munich. In his novel Edisson and Jeremiah (winner of the Guernica Prize), he conceives the story of history’s most controversial magic show, while laying bare the pathological duality of American culture.