The Knife Thrower And Other Stories by Steven Millhauser
A collection of luminous, often uncanny short stories that blend magical realism and psychological insight, exploring obsession, wonder, performance, and the boundary between reality and illusion. Characters encounter elaborate attractions, impossible devices, and strange fixations—carnival acts, invented cities, and miraculous phenomena—that reveal deep yearnings, eccentricities, and the fragile architectures of perception. Witty, elegiac, and sometimes eerie, the stories probe how imagination reshapes everyday life and how spectacle can become a means of self-revelation or self-destruction.
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- Published
- 1998
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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