The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Mustard; the Barnum Museum, a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it; a bored dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman - and loses her to an imaginary man! - and a legendary magician so skilled at sleight-of-hand that he is pursued by police for the crime of erasing the line between the real and the conjured.
| ISBN: | 9781564781796 |
| Publication date: | 22nd May 2014 |
| Author: | Steven Millhauser, Steven Milhauser |
| Publisher: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | American Literature Series |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Mustard; the Barnum Museum, a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it; a bored dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman - and loses her to an imaginary man! - and a legendary magician so skilled at sleight-of-hand that he is pursued by police for the crime of erasing the line between the real and the conjured.
The Barnum Museum features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
The Barnum Museum is available in Paperback
The Barnum Museum was written by Steven Millhauser, Steven Milhauser and published by Dalkey Archive Press
The Barnum Museum has 240 pages
Yes it is part of American Literature Series series