The Knife Thrower and Other Stories
Author: Steven Millhauser
The Knife Thrower introduces a series of distinctively Millhauserian worlds: tiny, fabulous, self-enclosed, like Fabergé eggs or like the short-story genre itself. Flying carpets; subterranean amusement parks; a band of teenage girls who meet secretly in the night in order to do “nothing at all”; a store with departments of Moorish courtyards, volcanoes, and Aztec temples:….Read More
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