A01=Steven Millhauser
Author_Steven Millhauser
Brown Book Group
Category1=Fiction
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COP=United Kingdom
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HMM=195
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ISBN13=9781472151070
Language_English
PA=Temporarily unavailable
PD=20151001
POP=London
Price=€10 to €20
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Subject=Fiction: Special Features
Subject=Modern & Contemporary Fiction
WG=254
WMM=130
Product details
- ISBN 9781472151070
- Weight: 254g
- Dimensions: 130 x 195 x 20mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2015
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Mustard; the Barnum Museum, a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it; 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.
Steven Millhauser is the author of numerous works of fiction, including Martin Dressler, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1997, and, more recently, We Others: New and Selected Stories, winner of The Story Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His work has been translated into fifteen languages, and his story 'Eisenheim the Illusionist' was the basis of the 2006 film The Illusionist. He teaches at Skidmore College.
