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We Others: New & Selected Stories | Steven Millhauser
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Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine. David Rollow, Boston Sunday Globe From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination. Steven Millhausers 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 settings as disparate as nineteenth-century Vienna, a contemporary Connecticut town, the corridors of a monstrous museum, and Thomas Edisons laboratory, and they are inhabited by a wide-ranging cast of characters, including a knife thrower and teenage boys, ghosts and a cartoon cat and mouse. But all of the stories are united in their unfailing power to surprise and enchant. From the earliest to the stunning, previously unpublished novella-length title storyin which a man who is dead, but not quite gone, reaches out to two lonely womenMillhauser in this magnificent collection carves out ever more deeply his wondrous place in the American literary canon.
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minkyb Love the lucky cat! 8y
CherylDeFranceschi @minkyb I collect them! 8y
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I love short stories. They are one of my favorite things. My very most favorite short story authors are Raymond Carver and Steven Millhauser. Carver for his wondrous skill and brevity and Millhauser for his gorgeous language and magical imagination. 💕#booktober #shortstories4evah

Hobbinol 👍👏❤️ 8y
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"It may be thought that the Barnum Museum is a children's museum, and it is certainly true that our children enjoy the flying carpet, the griffin in his cage, the winged horse, the homunculus in his jar, the grelling, the lorax, the giant in his tower, the leprechauns, the Invisibles, the great birds with the faces and breasts of women, the transparent man, the city in the lake, the woman of brass." #shortstories #somethingforseptember

Hobbinol Whenever I begin a Millhauser short story, I wonder how far he can take his theme this time. The answer is always much further than I could possibly imagine. I adore Millhauser's strange, overgrown worlds that appear as from a fever dream of an obsessive compulsive. While he won the Pulitzer for his novel, Martin Dressler, it is his short stories that are the most miraculous. 8y
shawnmooney I've never read anything of his except this wonderful essay in the New York Times about the short story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/books/review/Millhauser-t.html?smprod=nytcore-.... Thanks to your post, I'm going to investigate further, and soon! 8y
Hobbinol Thanks so much @shawnmooney ! I really enjoyed that essay. 😊 8y
CherylDeFranceschi ❤️❤️❤️Barnum Museum is my all - time favorite short story. Millhauser is genius!!! 8y
Hobbinol @CherylDeFranceschi I can't agree with you more! 8y
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