Description

From the best-selling writer of Martin Dressler comes a brand new assortment of stories that examine the wonderful obsessions of the unfettered creativity, in addition to the deeper, undercover currents that gas them.With the style of a classic-fashioned wizard, Steven Millhauser performs his visitors from the dim edges underneath the warm planet to your balloonist's visit of the heavens. He changes theme parks and shops into alternative universes of unlimited nuisance and plentitude. He uncovers the secrets of a coven of teen-age women and the producer of automatons. And on each page of The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, Millhauser confirms his stature as a narrative enchanter in the custom of Nabokov, Borges, and Calvino.