a novel by Don Bapst • 2011 Signature Editions
Careful what you believe
Glen Harrison is passionate about the Tarot. In the mysterious figures depicted in the symbolic cards, he finds answers to everything, including his own destiny. But when Glen tries to uncover the origins of the earliest known Tarot deck while earning his art history degree, he is brought on a terrifying journey, drawing him away from the safety of the museums and libraries of pre-911 New York to the most hidden reaches of West Africa, where a mystery as dark and ancient as the cards themselves awaits his discovery.
The beautifully painted Visconti-Sforza cards, commissioned by Italian nobility, were originally secular, private art reserved for the elite. Centuries later, however, the Tarot has come to be associated with telling fortunes. Esoteric nonsense? Or are the cards capable of predicting and changing their reader’s life? Through the intimate journal entires of Glen, The Hanged Man explores the fine line that separates life from art, truth from fantasy, sanity from madness.
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