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Little Kingdoms
Steven Millhauser
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2010-09-01
主題
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
0307763889
9780307763884
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UrvkKqdv8DoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
Martin Dressler
delivers an inventive collection of three novellas that are a magical companion to his acclaimed longer fictions. • "Millhauser makes our world turn amazing!" —
The New York Times Book Review
Cartoons that draw their creator into another world; demonic paintings that exert a sinister influence on our own. Fairy tales that express the secret losses and anxieties of their tellers. These are the elements that Steven Millhauser employs to such marvelous—and often disquieting—effect in
Little Kingdoms.
In "The Little Kingdom of J. Franklin Payne," a gentle eccentric constructs an elaborate alternate universe that is all the more appealing for being transparently unreal. "The Princess, the Dwarf, and the Dungeon" is at once a gothic tale of nightmarish jealousy and a meditation on the human need for exaltation and horror. And "Catalogue of the Exhibition" introduces us to the oeuvre of Edmund Moorash, a Romantic painter who might have been imagined by Nabokov or Poe. Exuberantly inventive, as mysterious as dreams, these novellas will delight, mesmerize, and transport anyone who reads them.