The Knife Thrower and Other Stories

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 th...