From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler — a collection of stories in the tradition of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges that explores the magnificent obsessions of the unfettered imagination, as well as the darker, subterranean currents that fuel them. • "Tantalizing new stories.... Millhauser's ingenuity is delicious." —A. S. Byatt, The Washington Post Book World With the panache of an old-fashioned magician, Steven Millhauser conducts his readers from the dark corners beneath the sunlit world to a balloonist's tour of the heavens. He transforms department stores and amusement parks into alternate universes of infinite plentitude and menace. He unveils the secrets of a maker of automatons and a coven of teenage girls. And on every page of The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, Millhauser confirms his stature as a narrative enchanter. "Tantalizing new stories.... Millhauser's ingenuity is delicious." —A. S. Byatt, The Washington Post Book World "An American writer of surpassing skill.... [Millhauser] renders the impossible itself with precision." — Chicago Tribune "As Gothic as Poe and as imaginative as Fantasia , Millhauser's deceptive fables are funny and warm. But they're dark as dungeons, too.... He bewitches you." — Entertainment Weekly STEVEN MILLHAUSER received the Pulitzer Prize for Martin Dressler . He is the author of Edwin Mullhouse , The Barnum Museum , and In the Penny Arcade , among other books. He lives with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York. Used Book in Good Condition