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The Barnum Museum

The Barnum Museum

by StevenMillhauser (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $11.92
Synopsis

"The Barnum Museum" is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus side-show masquerading as a collection of short stories. In the title story, the Barnum Museum is a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it. Other stories include: the tale of a bored dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman - and loses her to an imaginary man, and 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. Ingeniously written and orchestrated, each exhibit in "The Barnum Museum" will compel you to continue, each story becoming a lure to the next.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 03 May 2001
ISBN 10: 0753804662
ISBN 13: 9780753804667
Book Overview: To be reissued with a splendid new cover alongside Steven Millhauser's new paperback, Enchanted Night A highly original, utterly compelling collection from an outstandingly talented writer Steven Millhauser is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author 'Elegantly told, charming stories' New York Times 'His true strength is magic realism...Brilliant parodies, pastiches, and comments on Alice in Wonderland, Sinbad and TS Eliot show how this gifted craftsman can stretch the boundaries of the form' Time