The Knife Thrower: and Other Stories - Couverture souple

Millhauser, Steven

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0679781633 ISBN 13 : 9780679781639

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Millhauser Steven

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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'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 in the tradition of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges.

Revue de presse :

"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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679781633
• ISBN 13: 9780679781639
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240