num_pages: 176
description: The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from 'August Eschenburg', the story of a clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supersedes that of the refined and beautiful, to 'Cathay', a kingdom whose wonders include landscape paintings executed on the bodies of court ladies.
language: English
title: In the Penny Arcade
titlecomplete: In the Penny Arcade
genres: American, Magical Realism, Fantasy, Short Stories, Novels, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 436
publisher: Phoenix