ISBN: 0307763870 9780307763877

Category: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)

Page count: 240

<b><b>From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>Martin Dressler<b>—</b></i>a</b> 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, <i>The Washington Post Book World<br></i></b><br>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 <i>The Knife Thrower and Other Stories,</i><b> </b>Millhauser confirms his stature as a narrative enchanter.