Steven Millhauser

• Aug-1977
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• Apr-1985
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A parody of a literary biography starring a 10-year-old novelist who is mysteriously dead at 11 -- from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler.As a memorial, Edwin Mullhouse's best friend, Jeffrey Cartwright, decides that the life of th...

• Sep-1986
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• Sep-1993
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler delivers an inventive collection of three novellas that are a magical companion to his acclaimed longer fictions. • "Millhauser makes our world turn amazing!" -- The New York Times Book ReviewCa...

• May-1996
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The author of Voices in the Night reveals the mesmerizing journey of an American dreamer as he walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry.“This...

• Sep-1997
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The 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 participants in the game of Clue, in...

• Apr-1998
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After the success of his first novels (Edwin Mullhouse and Portrait of a Romantic), Steven Millhauser went on to enchant critics and readers with two short story collections that captured the magic and beauty of his longer works in vivid miniature.Th...

• Apr-1998
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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, subter...

• Oct-1999
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler 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 actua...

• Feb-2003
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A master of literary transformation, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler turns his attention to the transformations of love in these three hypnotic novellas. • “No one alive writes better about yearning and heartbreak…. Before ...

• Feb-2008
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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 ...

• Sep-2011
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Steven Millhauser's fiction has consistently, and to dazzling effect, dissolved the boundaries between reality and fantasy, waking life and dreams, the past and the future, darkness and light, love and lust. The stories gathered here unfurl in settin...

• Apr-2015
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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 o...

• May-2015
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” SelectionThe Wizard, the greatest inventor in history, can make anything. His machines capture light, motion, and sound. So what’s going on in The Box, the most secret, most mysterious room in the Wizard’s...

• Oct-2021
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They are citizens of our town who own property, pay taxes, and vote. They dress like us. They speak like us. They eat like us. They are two inches tall.From Steven Millhauser, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler and one of the most i...

• Aug-2023
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AN NPR AND NEW YORKER 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 t...