The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from August Eschenburg, the story of the clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supercedes that of the refined and beautiful, to Cathay, a kingdom whose wonders include elaborate landscape paintings executed on the eyelids and nipples of court ladies.

About Steven Millhauser

Steven Millhauser was born in 1943 in New York City, and grew up in Connecticut. He received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1965, and went on to pursue a doctorate in English at Brown University. He never completed his dissertation, but did complete a novel that was eventually published in a pared-down form under the title From the Realm of Morpheus-as well as Edwin Mullhouse. However, it was for his stories that Millhauser became best known; immaculately written, curiously vivid, they trod on fantastic boards in a manner reminiscent of Poe or Borges, but with a distinctively American voice. After In the Penny Arcade, Millhauser's collections continued with The Barnum Museum (1990), Little Kingdoms (1993), and The Knife Thrower and Other Stories (1998). Steven Millhauser lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, and teaches at Skidmore College.

Additional information

Sku

CIN1564781828G

ISBN 13

9781564781826

ISBN 10

1564781828

Title

In the Penny Arcade: Stories by Steven Millhauser

Author

Steven Millhauser

Series

American Literature Series

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Dalkey Archive Press

Year published

19980301

Number of pages

176

Prizes

N/A

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