{"title":"Steven Millhauser","description":"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.","products":[{"product_id":"disruptions-stories-paperback","title":"Disruptions: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN NPR AND \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the short story, the culmination of a five-decade career: work that takes us beneath the placid surface of suburban life into the elusive strangeness of the everyday\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A housewife drinks alone in her Connecticut living room. A guillotine glimmers above a sleepy town green. A pre-recorded customer service message sends a caller into a reverie of unspeakable yearning. With the deft touch and funhouse-mirror perspectives for which he has won countless admirers, Steven Millhauser gives us the towns, marriages, and families of a quintessential American lifestyle that is at once instantly recognizable and profoundly unsettling. \u003ci\u003eDisruptions \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of provocative, bracingly original new work from a writer at the peak of his form.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103226826975,"sku":"9780593468883","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/d85eAG3k5j9780593468883.webp?v=1781090526"},{"product_id":"the-king-in-the-tree-paperback","title":"The King in the Tree - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA master of literary transformation, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eMartin Dressler\u003c\/i\u003e turns his attention to the transformations of love in these three hypnotic novellas. - \"No one alive writes better about yearning and heartbreak.... Before such mastery, a reader can do nothing but bow his head.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWhile 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 results. And the title novella retells the story of Tristan and Ysolt from the agonized perspective of King Mark, a husband who compulsively looks for evidence of his wife's adultery yet compulsively denies what he finds. Combining enchantment as ancient as Sheherezade's with up-to-the-minute acuity and unease, \u003ci\u003eThe King in the Tree \u003c\/i\u003eis Millhauser at his best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 results. And the title novella retells the story of Tristan and Ysolt from the agonized perspective of King Mark, a husband who compulsively looks for evidence of his wife's adultery yet compulsively denies what he finds. Combining enchantment as ancient as Sheherezade's with up-to-the-minute acuity and unease, The King in the Tree is Millhauser at his best.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104394612959,"sku":"9781400031733","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/y6jsXtD0w29781400031733.webp?v=1781108213"},{"product_id":"edwin-mullhouse-the-life-and-death-of-an-american-writer-1943-1954-by-jeffrey-cartwright-paperback","title":"Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA parody of a literary biography starring a 10-year-old novelist who is mysteriously dead at 11--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eMartin Dressler.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a memorial, Edwin Mullhouse's best friend, 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, \u003ci\u003eCartoons.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003edwin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104755945695,"sku":"9780679766520","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/D7HjNtWlK29780679766520.webp?v=1781111252"},{"product_id":"dangerous-laughter-thirteen-stories-paperback","title":"Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eMartin Dressler\u003c\/i\u003e--hailed by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a virtuoso of waking dreams\"--comes a dazzling collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Remarkable ... Not just brilliant but prescient.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eDangerous Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e, Steven Millhauser transports us to unknown universes that uncannily resemble our own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe collection is divided into three parts that fit seamlessly together as a whole. It opens with a bang, as \"Cat 'n' Mouse\" reimagines the deadly ritual between cartoon rivals in a comedy of dynamite and anvils--a masterly prologue that sets the stage for the alluring, very grown-up twists that follow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart one, \"Vanishing Acts,\" features stories of risk and escape: a lonely woman disappears without a trace; a high school boy becomes entangled with his best friend's troubled sister; and a group of teenagers play a treacherous game that pushes them deep into \"the kingdom of forbidden things.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExcess reigns in the vivid, haunting places of Part two's \"Impossible Architectures,\" where domes enclose whole cities, and a king's master miniaturist creates objects so tiny that soon his entire world is invisible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinally, \"Heretical Histories\" presents startling alternatives to the remembered past. \"A Precursor of the Cinema\" proposes a new, enigmatic form of illusion. And in the astonishing \"The Wizard of West Orange\" a famous inventor sets out to simulate the sense of touch--but success brings disturbing consequences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSensual, mysterious, \u003ci\u003eDangerous Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing journey through brilliantly realized labyrinths of mortal pleasures that stretch the boundaries of the ordinary world to their limits--and occasionally beyond.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104780816607,"sku":"9780307387479","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vkv8XSpB979780307387479.webp?v=1781111304"},{"product_id":"enchanted-night-paperback","title":"Enchanted Night - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eMartin Dressler\u003c\/i\u003e comes a stunningly original book set in a Connecticut town over one incredible summer night. - \"[A] master of a prose that doesn't merely aspire to the condition of music but actually achieves it.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe delicious cast of characters includes a band of teenage girls who break into homes and simply leave notes reading \"We Are Your Daughters,\" a young woman who meets a phantom lover on the tree swing in her back yard, a beautiful mannequin who steps down from her department store window, and all the dolls \"no longer believed in,\" left abandoned in the attic, who magically come to life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith each new book, Steven Millhauser radically stretches not only the limits of fiction but also of his seemingly limitless abilities. \u003ci\u003eEnchanted Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable piece of fiction, a compact tale of loneliness and desire that is as hypnotic and rich as the language Millhauser uses to weave it.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler comes a stunningly original new book set in a Connecticut town over one incredible summer night. The delicious cast of characters includes a band of teenage girls who break into homes and simply leave notes reading \"We Are Your Daughters,\" a young woman who meets a phantom lover on the tree swing in her back yard, a beautiful mannequin who steps down from her department store window, and all the dolls \"no longer believed in,\" left abandoned in the attic, who magically come to life. \u003cbr\u003eWith each new book, Steven Millhauser radically stretches not only the limits of fiction but also of his seemingly limitless abilities. Enchanted Night is a remarkable piece of fiction, a compact tale of loneliness and desire that is as hypnotic and rich as the language Millhauser uses to weave it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the night of revelation. This is the night the dolls wake. This is the night of the dreamer in the attic. 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