Title: In the penny arcade
First published: 1986
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 the clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supercedes that of the refined and beautiful, to "Cathay," a kingdom whose wonders include elaborate landscape paintings executed on the eyelids and nipples of court ladies.
Subjects: United States, Social life and customs, 20th century, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century