The knife thrower and other stories
By: Steven Millhauser.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Other titles: Knife thrower
Description: Whether chronicling the phantasmagoric excesses of an amusement park entrepreneur in "Paradise Park," or the dangerously addictive delights of the largest department store ever conceived in "The Dream of the Consortium," Millhauser's fictions explore not only the magnificent obsessions of the unfettered imagination, but also the darker, subterranean desires that fuel them.

From the odd corners of life that persist below the sunlit world in "Beneath the Cellars of Our Town," to views from the heavens in "Flying Carpets" and "Balloon Flight, 1870," he takes us on a tour beyond the everyday, to realms we recognize only in dreams.
Table of contents: title: The knife thrower; title: A visit; title: The sisterhood of night; title: The way out; title: Flying carpets; title: The new automaton theater; title: Clair de lune; title: The dream of the consortium; title: Balloon flight, 1870; title: Paradise Park; title: Kaspar Hauser speaks; title: Beneath the cellars of our town.