The Knife Thrower and Other Stories - Rilegato

Millhauser, Steven

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0609600702 ISBN 13: 9780609600702

Casa editrice: Crown Pub, 1998

Riassunto

In his first book since his 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Martin Dressler, the author presents a collection of short stories ranging from a magical tale of night baseball to a meditation on adolescent alienation. 35,000 first printing.

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L'autore

Steven Millhauser has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of Edwin Mullhouse, Portrait of a Romantic, From the Realm of Morpheus, In the Penny Arcade, The Barnum Museum, Little Kingdoms, and Martin Dressler.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina

or his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, Steven Millhauser has always been most at home with the short story. This new collection of twelve stories puts his rich and varied talents on dazzling display, demonstrating why this singular writer is acclaimed as one of the most subtle, magical, and penetrating explorers of the American imagination.

Whether chronicling the phastasmagoric excesses of an amusement park entrepreneur in "Paradise Park," or the dangerously addictive delights of the largest department store ever conceived in "The Dream of the Consortium," Millhauser's fictions explore not only the magnificent obsessions of the unfettered imagination, but also the darker, subterranean desires that fuel them. From the odd corners of life that persist below the sunlit world in "Beneath the Cellars of Our Town," to views from the heavens in "Flying Carpets" and "Balloon Flight, 1870,&qu

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Crown Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0609600702
• ISBN 13: 9780609600702
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 256