9780679781639

The Knife Thrower

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780679781639

Paperback|9780679781639


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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler--a collection of stories in the tradition of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges that explores the magnificent obsessions of the unfettered imagination, as well as the darker, subterranean currents that fuel them. * "Tantalizing new stories.... Millhauser's ingenuity is delicious." --A. S. Byatt, The Washington Post Book World

With the panache of an old-fashioned magician, Steven Millhauser conducts his readers from the dark corners beneath the sunlit world to a balloonist's tour of the heavens. He transforms department stores and amusement parks into alternate universes of infinite plentitude and menace. He unveils the secrets of a maker of automatons and a coven of teenage girls. And on every page of The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, Millhauser confirms his stature as a narrative enchanter.

ISBN-13

9780679781639

ISBN-10

0679781633

Weight

0.60 Pounds

Dimensions

5.17 x 0.63 x 7.92 In

List Price

$15.00

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

240 pages

Publisher

Vintage

Published On

1999-02-22



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