Steven Millhauser, Author . Knopf $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-41540-1
There is nothing lighthearted about love, implies Millhauser, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Martin Dressler, in these three dark and feverishly rich novellas. While he stops short of cynicism, Millhauser's take on romance is a dark...
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Steven Millhauser, Author . Knopf $24 (244p) ISBN 978-0-307-26756-6
Phenomenal clarity and rapacious movement are only two of the virtues of Millhauser’s new collection, which focuses on the misery wrought by misdirected human desire and ambition. The citizens who build insulated domes over their houses in R
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Steven Millhauser, Author Vintage Books USA $13 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-76652-0
First published in 1972, Millhauser's cult novel is both a parody of literary biography and a heartfelt evocation of childhood. (Mar.)
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Steven Millhauser, Author Poseidon Press $20.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-86890-1
Overlappings of imagination and reality cast magic through these three vividly conceived novellas exploring the ramifications of artistic creation. In ``The Little Kingdom of J. Franklin Payne,'' the eponymous hero, a cartoonist for a New York City...
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Steven Millhauser, Author Crown Publishers $17 (112p) ISBN 978-0-609-60516-5
Compared to his ambitious, Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Dressler, Millhauser's new novella may seem slight, but it has a resonance and fairy tale allure that belie its slim page count. Set on a sultry summer night when an almost-full moon hovers...
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Steven Millhauser, Author William Morrow & Company $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06501-0
The dream-world suggested in the title begins with an image of a remembered life in an unspecified time and place. During a baseball game on a sun-stunned day, Carl Hausman, the narrator-observer, enters a magical landscape in search of a lost...
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Steven Millhauser, Author Poseidon Press $18.45 (237p) ISBN 978-0-671-68640-6
The 10 stories in Millhauser's ( Edwin Mullhouse ) newest collection smartly conform to the dictates of literary fashion. ``A Game of Clue,'' which opens the volume, describes both the people playing the famous board game and the lives of the game's
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Steven Millhauser, Author Plume Books $8.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-452-26702-2
Among these 10 stories are ``A Game of Clue'' based on the famous board game and its characters, and ``Klassic Komix #1'' starring Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock. The tales ``smartly conform to the dictates of literary fashion,'' said PW. ``Alone, any...
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Steven Millhauser, Author Crown Publishers $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-70319-9
Literature's romance with the building-as-metaphor earns new energy through Millhauser's latest novel (after Little Kingdoms, 1993), which quietly chronicles the life of an entrepreneur whose career peaks when he builds a fabulous hotel in turn-of-th
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Steven Millhauser. Knopf, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-307-70143-5
Millhauser's latest (after Dangerous Laughter), seven new stories and 14 taken from four previous collections, is an excellent primer for casual fans of the Pulitzer Prize–winning author, whose dreamy tales of Old World phantoms, All-American menace,
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Steven Millhauser. Knopf, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-35159-1
In this vividly imaginative new collection of 16 stories, Pulitzer Prize–winner Millhauser (Martin Dressler) draws a gauzy curtain of hyper-reality over mundane events and creates an atmosphere of uneasiness that accelerates to dread. Millhauser...
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Steven Millhauser, Author, Steven Milhauser, Author Dalkey Archive Press $12.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-56478-179-6
A collection of stories by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler. (Sept.)
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Steven Millhauser, Author, Nina Bourne, Editor, Alice Quinn, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $14.95 (164p) ISBN 978-0-394-54660-5
Magic, dark fantasy and enchantment provide the recurrent atmosphere and literary mode of this collection of seven stories by the author of Portrait of a Romantic, the first, ""August Eschenburg,'' of novella length. In the title narrative, a 12-year
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Edited by Jacob Weisman. Tachyon, $16.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-61696-210-4
In this very fine reprint anthology, Weisman has brought together 22 SF stories by authors who, although not generally associated with the genre, are clearly fellow travelers (not the ominous invaders suggested by the title). Among the major names...
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Steven Millhauser. Knopf, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-53541-7
Millhauser’s accomplished collection (after Voices in the Night) is a mélange of fantastical imaginings and scenes of domestic oddness. In “The Summer of Ladders,” one of several stories that grapple with suburban groupthink, Millhauser exhibits a...
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