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The Barnum Museum (American Literature)

by Steven Millhauser

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ISBN13: 9781564781796
ISBN10: 1564781798
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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.

Ingeniously written and orchestrated, each exhibit in The Barnum Museum will compel you to continue, each story becoming a lure to the next.

Review:

"Stunningly clever and thought-provoking....Millhauser is a brilliant stylist who can shift voices like a good ventriloquist." The Milwaukee Journal

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"Elegantly told, charming stories." New York Times

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"Imagine a funhouse gallery for fictive techniques and ideas, and you'll have some sense of these stories....Invites comparison with the work of Robertson Davies....A distinctive mix of stylistic dazzle and erudite wonder." Library Journal

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"A stunning paean to the power of imagination....Certainly the work of one of our best writers at the top of his form....So convincing that the most skeptical reader will be swept away." San Francisco Chronicle

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"The Barnum Museum" is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of stories. "What a pleasure it is to read a writer this good", wrote Peter Straub.
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ISBN:
9781564781796
Author:
Millhauser, Steven
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
Author:
Milhauser, Steven
Location:
Normal, IL
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
Dalkey Archive Dalkey Archive
Series:
American Literature Series
Series Volume:
CM-91
Publication Date:
September 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
8.47x5.54x.71 in. .79 lbs.
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