“steven millhauser”

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Martin Dressler" come three novellas--works of fiction that create a poetry of the impossible and blithely cross the threshold between the "real" world and the imaginary landscapes of art. "As Gothic as Poe and as imaginative as "Fantasia"".--"Entertainment... More

"This is the night of revelation. This is the night the dolls wake. This is the night of the dreamer in the attic. This is the night of the piper in the woods".In his dazzling new work, Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser presents a stunningly original tale set in a Connecticut town over one inc... More

dwin Mullhouse, a novelist at 10, is mysteriously dead at 11. As a memorial, Edwin's bestfriend, Jeffrey Cartwright, decides that the life of this great American writer must be told. He follows Edwin's development from his preverbal first noises through his love for comic books to the fulfillment of... More

Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin'... More

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents a collection of tantalizing stories "as Gothic as Poe and as imaginative as "Fantasia"" ("Entertainment Weekly").A multitiered amusement park whose lower levels provide thrills too potent for the average visitor. A knife thrower who specializes in the adminis... More

A master of literary transformation, Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser turns his attention to the transformations of love in these three hypnotic novellas. While ostensibly showing her home to a prospective buyer, the narrator of "Revenge" unfolds an origami-like narrative of betrayal and psyc... More

The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of the author's gifts, from the story of "August Eschenburg, " the clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose tast... More

"The Barnum Museum" is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of stories. "What a pleasure it is to read a writer this good", wrote Peter Straub.... More