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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
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
Thirteen darkly comic stories, Dangerous Laughter is a mesmerizing journey that stretches the boundaries of the ordinary world. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
Thirteen darkly comic stories, Dangerous Laughter is a mesmerizing journey that stretches the boundaries of the ordinary world. Read more >
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Martin Dressler
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 25, 1997
Price: $14.95
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 Martin's vision becomes bolder... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 25, 1997
Price: $14.95
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 Martin's vision becomes bolder... Read more >
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The Knife Thrower
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $13.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $13.00
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Dangerous Laughter
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
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 >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Edwin Mullhouse
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 1996
Price: $13.00
Edwin Mullhouse, a novelist at 10, is mysteriously dead at 11. As a memorial, Edwin's bestfriend, Jeffrey Cartwright, decides that the life of this great American writer must be told. He follows Edwin's development from his preverbal first noises through his love for comic books to the fulfillment of his literary... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 1996
Price: $13.00
Edwin Mullhouse, a novelist at 10, is mysteriously dead at 11. As a memorial, Edwin's bestfriend, Jeffrey Cartwright, decides that the life of this great American writer must be told. He follows Edwin's development from his preverbal first noises through his love for comic books to the fulfillment of his literary... Read more >
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Little Kingdoms
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 3, 1998
Price: $14.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 3, 1998
Price: $14.00
Read more >
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Enchanted Night
Format: Trade Paperback, 140 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $15.00
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler comes a stunningly original new book set in a Connecticut town over one incredible summer night. The delicious cast of characters includes a band of teenage girls who break into homes and simply leave notes reading "We Are Your Daughters," a young woman... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 140 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $15.00
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler comes a stunningly original new book set in a Connecticut town over one incredible summer night. The delicious cast of characters includes a band of teenage girls who break into homes and simply leave notes reading "We Are Your Daughters," a young woman... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The King in the Tree
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Dangerous Laughter
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
Thirteen darkly comic stories, Dangerous Laughter is a mesmerizing journey that stretches the boundaries of the ordinary world.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
Thirteen darkly comic stories, Dangerous Laughter is a mesmerizing journey that stretches the boundaries of the ordinary world.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Enchanted Night
Format: eBook, 140 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler comes a stunningly original new book set in a Connecticut town over one incredible summer night. The delicious cast of characters includes a band of teenage girls who break into homes and simply leave notes reading "We Are Your Daughters," a young woman... Read more >
Format: eBook, 140 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler comes a stunningly original new book set in a Connecticut town over one incredible summer night. The delicious cast of characters includes a band of teenage girls who break into homes and simply leave notes reading "We Are Your Daughters," a young woman... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The King in the Tree
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.00
From the author of Edwin Mullhouse and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Martin Dressler: three dazzling novellas about the many shapes of love.
“Revenge” is a tour de force about erotic love and betrayal, told through the voice of a woman showing her home to a stranger with a disturbing secret. As the once-happy... Read more >
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.00
From the author of Edwin Mullhouse and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Martin Dressler: three dazzling novellas about the many shapes of love.
“Revenge” is a tour de force about erotic love and betrayal, told through the voice of a woman showing her home to a stranger with a disturbing secret. As the once-happy... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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