Disruptions: Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780593535417)

AN NPR AND NEW YORKER 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

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. Disruptions is a collection of provocative, bracingly original new work from a writer at the peak of his form.

Author: Steven Millhauser
ISBN-10: 0593535413
ISBN-13: 9780593535417
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.00w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2023 pg. 5
Publishers Weekly 06/26/2023
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2023
Booklist 07/01/2023 pg. 18
Shelf Awareness 08/04/2023
Library Journal 12/22/2023 pg. 1