The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser - ISBN: 9781472151070
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The Barnum Museum

Stories

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2015

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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 construc…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472151070
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:195mm x 130mm x 20mm
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Elegantly told, charming stories

Elegantly told, charming stories * New York Times *

About The Author

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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