The King in the Tree (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400031733)

A master of literary transformation, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler turns his attention to the transformations of love in these three hypnotic novellas. - "No one alive writes better about yearning and heartbreak.... Before such mastery, a reader can do nothing but bow his head." --The Washington Post Book World

While ostensibly showing her home to a prospective buyer, the narrator of "Revenge" unfolds an origami-like narrative of betrayal and psychic violence. In "An Adventure of Don Juan" the legendary seducer seeks out new diversion on an English country estate with devastating results. And the title novella retells the story of Tristan and Ysolt from the agonized perspective of King Mark, a husband who compulsively looks for evidence of his wife's adultery yet compulsively denies what he finds. Combining enchantment as ancient as Sheherezade's with up-to-the-minute acuity and unease, The King in the Tree is Millhauser at his best.

Author: Steven Millhauser
ISBN-10: 1400031737
ISBN-13: 9781400031733
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2004
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.16w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/05/2004 pg. 20