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"Steven Millhauser is our preeminent literary explorer of the imagination. In three brilliant novellas, he brings to life three marvelous invented worlds and their odd, dark, and often wondrous relation with the larger kingdom of the real world." "In "The Little Kingdom of J. Franklin Payne," the quiet attic study, the grainy white rice paper, and the panels Payne draws for his animated cartoons gradually seduce the artist away from domestic life and into an invented world on the other side of the moon. In "The Princess, the Dwarf, and the Dungeon," a bourgeois town is obsessed with its castle and the tales associated with it - of a lovely princess, a jealous prince, a conniving dwarf, and a margrave bent on retribution. The castle is a little kingdom, created by centuries of anonymous narrators. In "Catalogue of the Exhibition," Edmund Moorash lives within the small world of the canvases he paints. It is left to the cataloguer to find the real life that informed the paintings." "A master of the novella, Millhauser traces the obsessions and consequences of the artistic imagination - that miraculous dark gift that invents a world, a little kingdom, as a mirror and challenge to the real world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| ISBN-13 | 9780671868901 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 067186890X |
| Weight | 1.10 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.75 In |
| List Price | $21.00 |
| Format | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Pages | 240 pages |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Published On | 1993-09-16 |
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