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Books by Steven Millhauser
  | | Barnum Museum(2nd Edition) (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Steven Millhauser Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-179-6, ISBN: 1-56478-179-8 ""A stunning paean to the power of imagination. . . . Certainly the work of one of our best writers at the top of his form. . . . So convincing that the most skeptical reader will be swept away."—San Francisco ChronicleThe 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 partic ..." |
 | | Voices in the Night(1st Edition) Stories by Steven Millhauser Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-385-35159-1, ISBN: 0-385-35159-3 "From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories—provocative, funny, disturbing, enchanting—that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit. Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small town life, Steven Millhauser further reveals in Voices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant an ..." |
 | | We Others(1st Edition) New and Selected Stories by Steven Millhauser Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2011 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-59590-4, ISBN: 0-307-59590-0 "âEvery reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.ââDavid Rollow, Boston Sunday GlobeFrom the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination.Steven Millhauserâs fiction has consistently, and to dazzling effect, dissolved the boundaries between reality and fantasy, wakin ..." |
 | | The King in the Tree by Steven Millhauser Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3173-3, ISBN: 1-4000-3173-7 "A master of literary transformation, Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser turns his attention to the transformations of love in these three hypnotic novellas. 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 resu ..." |
 | | The Knife Thrower(98th Edition) and Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Steven Millhauser Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1999 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-78163-9, ISBN: 0-679-78163-3 "Included in this short story collection is "The Sisterhood of the Night", now a major motion picture. From the bestselling author of Martin Dressler, this volume explores the magnificent obsessions of the unfettered imagination, as well as the darker, subterranean currents that fuel them. With the panache of an old-fashioned magician, Steven Millhauser conducts his readers from the dark corners beneath the sunlit world to a balloonist ..." |
 | | Martin Dressler the Tale of an American(Updated) by Steven Millhauser Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1999 by Phoenix (An Imprint Of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) ISBN-13: 978-0-7538-0542-8, ISBN: 0-7538-0542-1 "Martin Dressler is the son of a cigar maker, born in late 19th-century New York. As Martin approaches manhood, it is rapidly clear that his ambitions stretch far further than inheriting his father's shop, as he moves first to take a job in a hotel, then to open a restaurant, and rapidly ascends to become a builder of hotels of his own. He is a classic entrepreneur, a young man who has the audacity to make his dreams - and the American D ..." |
 | | The Knife Thrower and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1999 by Phoenix (An Imprint Of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) ISBN-13: 978-0-7538-0821-4, ISBN: 0-7538-0821-8 |
 | | Martin Dressler(Reprint) The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser Paperback, 293 Pages, Published 1997 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-78127-1, ISBN: 0-679-78127-7 "Young Martin Dressler begins his career as a helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top. His visions grow more and more fantastical as he plans his ultimate creation: the Grand Cosmo, in which he attempts to capture the entire world and its dreams. Accompanied on this journey by two sisters - one a dreamlike shadow, the other a wordly business partner - ..." |
 | | Martin Dressler(1st Edition) The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser Hardcover, 293 Pages, Published 1996 by Crown ISBN-13: 978-0-517-70319-9, ISBN: 0-517-70319-X "Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder and bolder he walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry, a sense o ..." |
 | | LITTLE KINGDOMS(1st Edition) THREE NOVELLAS by Steven Millhauser Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1993 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-0-671-86890-1, ISBN: 0-671-86890-X "Three distinct, imaginative worlds are created in three novellas by the author of In the Penny Arcade, each one serving as a fantastic mirror to the real world." |
 | | Dangerous Laughter(Reprint) Thirteen Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Steven Millhauser Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38747-9, ISBN: 0-307-38747-X "Thirteen darkly comic stories, Dangerous Laughter is a mesmerizing journey that stretches the boundaries of the ordinary world." |
 | | Dangerous Laughter(1st Edition) Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser Hardcover, 244 Pages, Published 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26756-6, ISBN: 0-307-26756-3 "From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author hailed by The New Yorker as “a virtuoso of waking dreams” comes a dazzling new collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession. In Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser transports us to unknown universes that uncannily resemble our own.The collection is divided into three parts that fit seamlessly together as a whole. It opens with a bang, as “Cat ’n’ Mouse” reimagines t ..." |
 | | Enchanted Night A Novella by Steven Millhauser Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2000 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70696-7, ISBN: 0-375-70696-8 "In novels such as Edwin Mullhouse and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Dressler, Steven Millhauser conjured fictions as intricate and delicately formed as soap bubbles. True to form, his Enchanted Night seems to want to float right up out of the reader's hand. In its pages are many of Millhauser's trademark fascinations: dolls; mannequins; an obsessed artist; teenage girls meeting secretly at night; and above all, the stran ..." |
 | | Little Kingdoms(Reprint) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Steven Millhauser Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1998 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70143-6, ISBN: 0-375-70143-5 "Cartoons that draw their creator into another world; demonic paintings that exert a sinister influence on our own. Fairy tales that express the secret losses and anxieties of their tellers. These are the elements that Steven Millhauser employs to such marvelous—and often disquieting—effect in Little Kingdoms, a collection whose three novellas suggest magical companion pieces to his acclaimed longer fictions.In "The Little Kingdom of J. ..." |
 | | Martin Dressler(1st Edition) The Tale of An American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser, Martin Dressler Hardcover, 293 Pages, Published 1998 by Phoenix House ISBN-13: 978-1-86159-089-3, ISBN: 1-86159-089-X "Martin Dressler is the son of cigar maker, born in late nineteenth-century New York. As Martin approaches manhood, it is rapidly clear that his ambitions stretch far further than inheriting his father's shop, as he moves first to take a job in a hotel, then to open a restaurant, and rapidly ascends to become a builder of hotels of his own. He is a classic entrepreneur, a young man who has the audacity to make his dreams - and the Americ ..." |
 | | Edwin Mullhouse the Life and Death of an A(Updated) by Steven Millhauser Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1998 by Phoenix Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7538-0467-4, ISBN: 0-7538-0467-0 "This is a witty and elegiac novel in the form of a biography, from a Pulitzer Prize winning author. At the age of 2, Edwin Mullhouse was reciting Shakespeare. At 10, he had written a novel that critics would call a work of undoubted genius. At 11, Edwin Mullhouse was mysteriously dead. Documenting every stage of this brief kife was Jeffrey Cartwright, Edwin's best friend and biographer - and the narrator of this dazzling portrait of the ..." |
 | | Edwin Mullhouse(Reprint) The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright by Steven Millhauser, Pamela Clarke Keogh Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1996 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76652-0, ISBN: 0-679-76652-9 "Edwin Mullhouse, a novelist at 10, is mysteriously dead at 11. As a memorial, Edwin's bestfriend, Jeffrey Cartwright, decides that the life of this great American writer must be told. He follows Edwin's development from his preverbal first noises through his love for comic books to the fulfillment of his literary genius in the remarkable novel, Cartoons." |
 | | Invaders 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature by W. P. Kinsella, Steven Millhauser, Jim Shepard, Amiri Baraka, Professor Max Apple, Jacob Weisman, Junot Diaz, Jonathan Lethem, George Saunders Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2016 by Tachyon Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-61696-210-4, ISBN: 1-61696-210-0 "The invasion of the future has begun. Literary legends including Steven Millhauser, Junot Diaz, Amiri Baraka, and Katharine Dunn have attacked the borders of the every day. Like time traveling mad-scientists, they have concocted outrageous creations from the future. They have seized upon tales of technology gone wrong and mandated that pulp fiction must finally grow up. In these wildly-speculative stories you will discover the company t ..." |
 | | Martin Dressler The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Corsair ISBN-13: 978-1-4721-5109-4, ISBN: 1-4721-5109-7 "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award FinalistYoung Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder and bolder he walks a haunted line between fantasy an ..." |
 | | Voices in the Night (Hardcover) by Steven Millhauser, Howard Hughes Hardcover, Published 2015 by Little, Brown Book Group ISBN-13: 978-1-4721-1430-3, ISBN: 1-4721-1430-2 |
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