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The Knife Thrower

Name: The Knife Thrower
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Author: Steven Millhauser
ISBN: 9780679781639

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Published on Feb 22, 1999 | 240 Pages

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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.

“Tantalizing new stories…. Millhauser’s ingenuity is delicious.” —A. S. Byatt, The Washington Post Book World

“An American writer of surpassing skill…. [Millhauser] renders the impossible itself with precision.” —Chicago Tribune

“As Gothic as Poe and as imaginative as Fantasia, Millhauser’s deceptive fables are funny and warm. But they’re dark as dungeons, too…. He bewitches you.” —Entertainment Weekly

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Steven Millhauser

STEVEN MILLHAUSER is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the novel Martin Dressler, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1997, and We Others: New and Selected Stories, winner of The Story Prize in 2011 and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His work has been translated into eighteen languages, and his story “Eisenheim the Illusionist” was the basis of the 2006 film The Illusionist. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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