false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1203665253m/2876477.jpg 146212 9 <I>The Knife Thrower</I> introduces a series of distinctively Millhauserian worlds: tiny, fabulous, self-enclosed, like Fabergé eggs or like the short-story genre itself. Flying carpets; subterranean amusement parks; a band of teenage girls who meet secretly in the night in order to do "nothing at all"; a store with departments of Moorish courtyards, volcanoes, and Aztec temples: these are Millhauser's stock-in-trade as a storyteller, and he employs them to characteristically magical effect. As in Millhauser's other books, including <I>Edwin Mullhouse</I> and the Pulitzer Prize-winning <I>Martin Dressler</I>, his subject is nothing less than the faculty of imagination itself. Here, however, the flights of fancy are unencumbered by <I>Martin Dressler</I>'s wealth of period detail, and the result is fun-house prose whose pleasures and terrors are equally gossamer. Millhauser possesses the unique ability to render the quotidian strange, so that, emerging from his stories, the reader often feels the world itself an unfamiliar place--as do the shoppers at his department store, that marketplace of skillful illusion: "As we hurry along the sidewalk, we have the absurd sensation that we have entered still another department, composed of ingeniously lifelike streets with artful shadows and reflections--that our destinations lie in a far corner of the same department--that we are condemned to hurry forever through these artificial halls, bright with late afternoon light, in search of the way out." 979082 1999 The Knife Thrower total:254|5:81|4:119|3:40|2:11|1:3| 254 1026 381 26 146212 0753808218 9780753808214 184 18 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172178288m/146212.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146212.The_Knife_Thrower 3 2 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 07:15:52 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 07:31:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 863476 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4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172178288m/146212.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146212.The_Knife_Thrower 4 0 false Fri Oct 17 15:01:06 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 15:34:32 -0700 2008 993588 0609600702 9780609600702 11 1 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180057919m/993588.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/993588.The_Knife_Thrower_and_Other_Stories 4 0 false Tue Feb 12 18:26:47 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 18:31:20 -0800 2008 The only other stories I like from this collection are "The Knife Thrower" and "The Sisterhood of Night."...]]> 146212 0753808218 9780753808214 184 18 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172178288m/146212.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146212.The_Knife_Thrower 1 0 false Thu Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 11:22:02 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 11:37:28 -0700 2008 863476 0679781633 9780679781639 47 7 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178998948m/863476.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/863476.The_Knife_Thrower_and_Other_Stories 4 0 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