num_pages: 240
description: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler — a collection of stories in the tradition of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges that explores the magnificent obsessions of the unfettered imagination, as well as the darker, subterranean currents that fuel them. • "Tantalizing new stories.... Millhauser's ingenuity is delicious." —A. S. Byatt, The Washington Post Book WorldWith the panache of an old-fashioned magician, Steven Millhauser conducts his readers from the dark corners beneath the sunlit world to a balloonist's tour of the heavens. He transforms department stores and amusement parks into alternate universes of infinite plentitude and menace. He unveils the secrets of a maker of automatons and a coven of teenage girls. And on every page of The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, Millhauser confirms his stature as a narrative enchanter.
language: English
title: The Knife Thrower and Other Stories
titlecomplete: The Knife Thrower and Other Stories
genres: Fiction, American, Magical Realism, Short Stories, The United States Of America, Anthologies, Horror, Short Story Collection, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1212
publisher: Vintage