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The Knife Thrower (1999)

The Knife Thrower (1999)

Short Stories

Steven Millhauser, Marc Chénétier

Year: 1999
Authors: Steven Millhauser, Marc Chénétier
Print type: BOOK

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.