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Vintage Contemporaries : Three Novellas - Steven Millhauser

Vintage Contemporaries

Three Novellas

By: Steven Millhauser

Paperback | 3 February 1998

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239 Pages

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20.32 x 13.34 x 1.91

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In these three novellas Steven Millhauser creates a poetry of the impossible that blithely crosses the threshold between the "real" world and the imaginary landscapes of art.

In "The Little Kingdom of J. Franklin Payne", a gentle eccentric constructs an elaborate alternate universe that is all the more appealing for being transparently unreal. "The Princess, the Dwarf, and the Dungeon" is at once a gothic tale of nightmarish jealousy and a meditation on the human need for exaltation and horror. And "Catalogue of the Exhibition" introduces us to the oeuvre of Edmund Moorash, a Romantic painter of a uniquely eerie artistry. Exuberantly inventive, as mysterious as dreams, Little Kingdoms will delight, mesmerize, and transport anyone who reads it.

Industry Reviews

"Millhauser's writing is dazzling." David Leavitt, Esquire "Millhauser makes our world turn amazing!" The New York Times Book Review "An American writer of surpassing skill.... He renders the impossible itself with precision." Chicago Tribune"

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