Enchanted Night

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Paperback
2001
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One hot summer night in a small town in southern Connecticut, while the tide is still going out, Laura Engstrom, fourteen years old, is awakened by the moon streaming in her bedroom window. She isn't the only one to be disturbed by the rising moon. All across town, dreamers are awakening, throwing off the covers. A sequence of short chapters, each a tiny story in itself, introduces the reader to the restless inhabitants of an apparently idyllic American town. Strange children, petty crooks, thwarted lovers and simple insomniacs stalk the pages of this enchanting short novel, building restlessly to an uneasy climax. Millhauser, at his most imaginative and most lyrical, Enchanted Night is full of darkling menace. This is a novel to be read late at night, in one sitting, preferably with the light on.

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One hot summer night in a small town in southern Connecticut, while the tide is still going out, Laura Engstrom, fourteen years old, is awakened by the moon streaming in her bedroom window. She isn't the only one to be disturbed by the rising moon. All across town, dreamers are awakening, throwing off the covers. A sequence of short chapters, each a tiny story in itself, introduces the reader to the restless inhabitants of an apparently idyllic American town. Strange children, petty crooks, thwarted lovers and simple insomniacs stalk the pages of this enchanting short novel, building restlessly to an uneasy climax. Millhauser, at his most imaginative and most lyrical, Enchanted Night is full of darkling menace. This is a novel to be read late at night, in one sitting, preferably with the light on.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 03 May 2001
ISBN 10: 0753811332
ISBN 13: 9780753811337
Book Overview: Steven Millhauser is a Pullizer Prize-winning author To be promoted alongside Steven Millhauser's attractively repackaged backlist 'Millhauser's subject might be the dark itself, but his book pulsates with gleaming light. Enchanted Night is a beautiful slip of a book' The Times 'Millhauser is a virtuouso of waking dreams and those hushed moments when 'the world, filled to the brim with stillness, suddenly overflows The New Yorker 'Read this book slowly - you'll want to delay that bittersweet feeling as long as possible' New York Post

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