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Steven Millhauser's first novel, Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer, was published in 1972 and several years later received the Prix Médicis Étranger in France. Since then he has published nine works of fiction, among them several collections of stories and novellas, as well as the novel Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. He is also a recipient of the Lannan Award and has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story "Eisenheim the Illusionist," from The Barnum Museum, was the basis of the... Read More
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Dangerous Laughter
Thirteen Stories
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author hailed by The New Yorker as “a virtuoso of waking dreams” comes a dazzling new collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession. In Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser transports us to unknown universes that uncannily resemble our own.
The collection is divided into three... Read more >
Thirteen Stories
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author hailed by The New Yorker as “a virtuoso of waking dreams” comes a dazzling new collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession. In Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser transports us to unknown universes that uncannily resemble our own.
The collection is divided into three... Read more >
Dangerous Laughter
Thirteen Stories
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $24.00
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author hailed by The New Yorker as “a virtuoso of waking dreams” comes a dazzling new collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession. In Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser transports us to unknown universes that uncannily resemble our own.
The collection is divided into three... Read more >
Thirteen Stories
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $24.00
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author hailed by The New Yorker as “a virtuoso of waking dreams” comes a dazzling new collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession. In Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser transports us to unknown universes that uncannily resemble our own.
The collection is divided into three... Read more >
Dangerous Laughter
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
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Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
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Edwin Mullhouse
The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 16, 1996
Price: $13.00
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The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 16, 1996
Price: $13.00
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Enchanted Night
A Novella
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 140 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $15.00
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A Novella
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 140 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $15.00
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Enchanted Night
A Novella
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: eBook, 140 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
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A Novella
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: eBook, 140 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
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The King in the Tree
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $12.00
A master of literary transformation, Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser turns his attention to the transformations of love in these three hypnotic novellas. While ostensibly showing her home to a prospective buyer, the narrator of “Revenge” unfolds an origami-like narrative of betrayal and psychic violence. In “An Adventure of Don Juan” the... Read more >
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $12.00
A master of literary transformation, Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser turns his attention to the transformations of love in these three hypnotic novellas. While ostensibly showing her home to a prospective buyer, the narrator of “Revenge” unfolds an origami-like narrative of betrayal and psychic violence. In “An Adventure of Don Juan” the... Read more >
The King in the Tree
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.00
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Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.00
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The Knife Thrower
and Other Stories
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $13.00
Best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (also available in Vintage paperback), Steven Millhauser has always been most at home with the short story. This new collection of twelve stories puts his rich and varied talents on dazzling display, demonstrating why this singular... Read more >
and Other Stories
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $13.00
Best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (also available in Vintage paperback), Steven Millhauser has always been most at home with the short story. This new collection of twelve stories puts his rich and varied talents on dazzling display, demonstrating why this singular... Read more >
Little Kingdoms
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 3, 1998
Price: $14.00
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Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 3, 1998
Price: $14.00
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Martin Dressler
The Tale of an American Dreamer
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 25, 1997
Price: $14.95
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous... Read more >
The Tale of an American Dreamer
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 25, 1997
Price: $14.95
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous... Read more >
