The Knife Thrower: And Other Stories

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ISBN-10: 0679781633
ISBN-13: 9780679781639
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 02/22/1999
Dimensions: 8.04" L, 5.20" W, 0.63" H

The Knife Thrower: And Other Stories

bySteven Millhauser

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Overview

From the bestselling author of “Martin Dressler” comes a new collection of short stories that explore the magnificent obsessions of the unfettered imagination, as well as the darker, subterranean currents that fuel them.

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 plenitude and menace. He unveils the secrets of a maker of automatons and a coven of teenaged girls.

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Reviews
"Tantalizing new stories.... Millhauser's ingenuity is delicious." –A. S. Byatt, The Washington Post Book World

"An American writer of surpassing skill.... [Millhauser] renders the impossible itself with precision." –Chicago Tribune

"As Gothic as Poe and as imaginative as Fantasia, Millhauser's deceptive fables are funny and warm. But they're dark as dungeons, too.... He bewitches you." –Entertainment Weekly
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Details

ISBN-10: 0679781633
ISBN-13: 9780679781639
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 02/22/1999
Dimensions: 8.04" L, 5.20" W, 0.63" H
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