Description
A master of literary transformation, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler turns his attention to the transformations of love in these three hypnotic novellas. - "No one alive writes better about yearning and heartbreak.... Before such mastery, a reader can do nothing but bow his head." --The Washington Post Book World
While ostensibly showing her home to a prospective buyer, the narrator of "Revenge" unfolds an origami-like narrative of betrayal and psychic violence. In "An Adventure of Don Juan" the legendary seducer seeks out new diversion on an English country estate with devastating results. And the title novella retells the story of Tristan and Ysolt from the agonized perspective of King Mark, a husband who compulsively looks for evidence of his wife's adultery yet compulsively denies what he finds. Combining enchantment as ancient as Sheherezade's with up-to-the-minute acuity and unease, The King in the Tree is Millhauser at his best.
Author: Steven Millhauser
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/13/2004
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.16w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781400031733
ISBN10: 1400031737
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Romance | Suspense
While ostensibly showing her home to a prospective buyer, the narrator of "Revenge" unfolds an origami-like narrative of betrayal and psychic violence. In "An Adventure of Don Juan" the legendary seducer seeks out new diversion on an English country estate with devastating results. And the title novella retells the story of Tristan and Ysolt from the agonized perspective of King Mark, a husband who compulsively looks for evidence of his wife's adultery yet compulsively denies what he finds. Combining enchantment as ancient as Sheherezade's with up-to-the-minute acuity and unease, The King in the Tree is Millhauser at his best.
Author: Steven Millhauser
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/13/2004
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.16w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781400031733
ISBN10: 1400031737
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Romance | Suspense
About the Author
Steven Millhauser received the Pulitzer Prize for Martin Dressler. He is the author of nine other books, including Edwin Mullhouse, Enchanted Night, and The Knife Thrower and Other Stories. He teaches at Skidmore College and lives with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York.