Disruptions: stories

"Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A housewife drinks alone in her Connecticut living room. A guillotine glimmers above a sleepy town green. A pre-recorded customer service message sends a caller into a reverie of unspeakable yearning. With the deft touch and funhous...

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Main Author: Millhauser, Steven 1943- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Alfred A. Knopf 2023
Edition:First edition
Series:A Borzoi book
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Summary:"Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A housewife drinks alone in her Connecticut living room. A guillotine glimmers above a sleepy town green. A pre-recorded customer service message sends a caller into a reverie of unspeakable yearning. With the deft touch and funhouse-mirror perspectives for which he has won countless admirers, Steven Millhauser gives us the towns, marriages, and families of a quintessential American lifestyle that is at once instantly recognizable and profoundly unsettling. Disruptions is a provocative, utterly original new collection from a writer at the peak of his form"--
Item Description:"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso
Physical Description:viii, 270 Seiten 22 cm
ISBN:9780593535417
9780593468883