by StevenMillhauser (Author)
From cartoons that draw their creator into another world, and demonic paintings that exert a sinister influence on our own world to fairy tales that express the secret losses and anxieties of their tellers...These are the elements that Steven Millhauser employs with brilliant, often disquieting, effect in Little Kingdoms . The three novellas range from an elaborate alternate universe constructed by a gentle eccentric to a gothic tale of nightmarish jealousy. Exuberantly inventive, and as mysterious as dreams, Little Kingdoms will delight, mesmerise, and transport anyone who reads them.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Dec 1999
ISBN 10: 0753808234
ISBN 13: 9780753808238
Book Overview: Steven Millhauser is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler: 'A brilliantly intense focus on the wondrous hum and whirl of everyday ... The mesmerising sway of the storytelling and the overtones of fairy tale and tragic myth are unmistakable from the start' New York Newsday First UK paperback publication - published alongside In the Penny Arcade and The Knife Thrower 'Millhauser's writing is dazzling' Esquire 'Irresistible ... Steven Millhauser is, all in all, a wonderfully appropriate writer for our very own fin de siecle' Washington Post '[Millhauser] creates a world that is exquisite in its tortures and terrors, a world which only the heightened consciousness of an artist or a dreamer could inhabit' Washington Post Book World 'As gothic as Poe and as imaginative as Fantasia, Millhauser's deceptive fables are funny and warm. But they're dark as dungeons, too - unsettling and possibly dangerous. He bewitches you' Entertainment Weekly
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