The knife thrower and other stories
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1998 - Crown Publishers, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL698219M
- ISBN-100609600702
- OCLC Control Number37903620
- OCLC Control Numberknifethroweroth00mill
- Library of Congress Control Number97045796
and 2 more
- LibraryThing2812832
- Goodreads993588
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3563.I422 K58 1998
Alternate Titles
- Knife thrower
Description
Whether chronicling the phantasmagoric excesses of an amusement park entrepreneur in "Paradise Park," or the dangerously addictive delights of the largest department store ever conceived in "The Dream of the Consortium," Millhauser's fictions explore not only the magnificent obsessions of the unfettered imagination, but also the darker, subterranean desires that fuel them. From the odd corners of life that persist below the sunlit world in "Beneath the Cellars of Our Town," to views from the heavens in "Flying Carpets" and "Balloon Flight, 1870," he takes us on a tour beyond the everyday, to realms we recognize only in dreams.
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