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In the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer praised by The New Yorker as “a virtuoso of waking dreams” comes a stunning new assortment of darkly amusing stories united by their obsession with obsession. In Harmful Fun, Steven Millhauser carries us to unfamiliar galaxies that uncannily resemble our own.The selection is divided in to three components that fit seamlessly together in general. and a king’s master miniaturist produces items so small that soon his world is invisible.Finally, “Heretical Histories” provides surprising options for the remembered past. “A Precursor of the Cinema” suggests a brand new, enigmatic type of impression. And within the amazing “The Magician of West Orange” a well-known creator sets out to imitate the feeling of touch—but achievement provides troubling consequences.Sensual, mystical, Harmful Fun is just a magical journey through wonderfully recognized labyrinths of human joys that stretch the limits of the standard world for their limits—and periodically beyond.