ISBN: 0593535421 9780593535424

Category: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)

Page count: 288

<b>AN NPR AND <i>NEW YORKER </i>BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the short story, the culmination of a five-decade career: work that takes us beneath the placid surface of suburban life into the elusive strangeness of the everyday</b><br><br>Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A housewife drinks alone in her Connecticut living room. A guillotine glimmers above a sleepy town green. A pre-recorded customer service message sends a caller into a reverie of unspeakable yearning. With the deft touch and funhouse-mirror perspectives for which he has won countless admirers, Steven Millhauser gives us the towns, marriages, and families of a quintessential American lifestyle that is at once instantly recognizable and profoundly unsettling. <i>Disruptions </i>is a collection of provocative, bracingly original new work from a writer at the peak of his form.