The Knife Thrower: And Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679781639)

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.

Author: Steven Millhauser
ISBN-10: 0679781633
ISBN-13: 9780679781639
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 02/22/1999
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.20w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/14/1999 pg. 36