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: | 9780679781639 |
| Publication date: | 22nd February 1999 |
| Author: | Steven Millhauser |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Genres: |
Shorter Reads Anthologies: general General Fiction Fantasy |
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.
The Knife Thrower features in the following genres: Shorter Reads, Anthologies: general, General Fiction, Fantasy
The Knife Thrower is available in Paperback
The Knife Thrower was written by Steven Millhauser and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The Knife Thrower has 240 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage Contemporaries series