Publisher's Synopsis
Praised by EM Forster in his essay series Aspects of the Novel, Flecker's Magic is a fantasy in which imaginative American, Spike Flecker--an aspiring young painter enduring poverty in Paris--meets a girl in a café who tells him that she is a witch. The girl gives him a ring, which will grant him one wish. But faced with the omnipotent power of the wish, how is the young man to decide just exactly for what he should wish?