Little Kingdoms: Three Novellas - Couverture rigide

Millhauser, Steven

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 067186890X ISBN 13 : 9780671868901

Editeur : Poseidon Pr, 1993

Synopsis

Book by Millhauser Steven

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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. Franklin Payne," a gentle eccentric constructs an elaborate alternate universe that is all the more appealing for being transparently unreal. "The Princess, the Dwarf, and the Dungeon" is at once a gothic tale of nightmarish jealousy and a meditation on the human need for exaltation and horror. And "Catalogue of the Exhibition" introduces us to the oeuvre of Edmund Moorash, a Romantic painter who might have been imagined by Nabokov or Poe. Exuberantly inventive, as mysterious as dreams, these novellas will delight, mesmerize, and transport anyone who reads them.

Biographie de l'auteur

Steven Millhauser received the Pulitzer Prize for Martin Dressler. He is a recipient of the Lannan Award and has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The author of Edwin Mullhouse, The Barnum Museum, and The Penny Arcade, among other books, he teaches at Skidmore College and lives with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Poseidon Pr
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 067186890X
• ISBN 13: 9780671868901
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible