The Knife Thrower
New Ed edition
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Author
Publication
1999-12-02 - Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveknifethrower00stev
- ISBN-100753808218
- ISBN-139780753808214
- Goodreads146212
- LibraryThing2812832
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780753808214
- Open LibraryOL7988156M
Classifications
- LCCPS3563.I422 K58 1998
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.
First Sentence
WHEN WE LEARNED that Hensch, the knife thrower, was stopping at our town for a single performance at eight o'clock on Saturday night, we hesitated, wondering what we felt.
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