The Barnum Museum
Stories
$39.59
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2015
Summary
The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as:
- A study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Mustard.
- The Barnum Museum, a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it.
- A bored dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman - and loses her to an imaginary man!
- A legendary magician so skilled at sleight-of-hand that he is pursued by police for the crime of erasing the line between the real and the conjured.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472151070 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472151070 |
| Author: | Steven Millhauser |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2015 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 130mm x 195mm |
| Audience Age: | 0-0 |
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Critics Review
Elegantly told, charming stories
Elegantly told, charming stories * New York Times *
Steven Millhauser
Steven Millhauser is the author of numerous works of fiction, including Martin Dressler, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1997, and, more recently, We Others: New and Selected Stories, winner of The Story Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His work has been translated into fifteen languages, and his story ‘Eisenheim the Illusionist’ was the basis of the 2006 film The Illusionist. He teaches at Skidmore College.
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