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Author:	Steven Millhauser	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Random House Inc	Edition:	1
ISBN-10:	0375415408	ISBN-13:	9780375415401
Subject:	Folklore, Mythology	Publication Year:	2003
Topic:	--	Special Attributes:	--
Language:	English	Condition:	Good

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Synopsis
Three novellas, all about love in some form: REVENGE, which takes place as a woman is showing a stranger around her house; AN ADVENTURE OF DON JUAN, in which the Don attempts a seduction in an English country house; and THE KING IN THE TREE, based on the story of Tristan and Yseult. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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Length:	256 pages
Height:	8.8 in.
Width:	6.0 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	16.3 oz.

Publisher's Note
–Jesse Berrett, San Francisco Chronicle “These three tales, each in different ways, confirm Millhauser’s reputation as a master stylist.” –Roger Harris, Sunday Star-Ledger “In exploring worlds and selves so out-of-joint, Millhauser delves into our own multiple natures and sees us as we are: both shadowed and illuminated, in pieces yet whole. It makes for powerful, spellbinding reading.” –Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times “In some ways, Millhauser is one of our greatest living 19th century writers.... The King in the Tree is a moving, melancholy book about the unlovely toll exacted by love on those it has abandoned.” –Jeff Turrentine, Los Angeles Times “An ingenious geometer of love triangles, Millhauser tinkers with tested formulas in these three novellas, while giving full rein to his taste for the fantastical….[His] shrewd sense of psychology makes his characters’ impulses toward romantic excess manifestly believable.” –New Yorker “No one alive writes better about yearning and heartbreak. So enchanting is his prose, so delicate his touch, that one surrenders to his plangent word-music as one does to the wistful piano pieces of Ravel and Chopin.” –Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World “Millhauser’s writing is dazzling . . . [with] heart as well as fierce intelligence, and that combination, to my mind, signifies greatness.” –David Leavitt, Esquire “[Millhauser’s] latest book, a triptych of novellas, further confirms what w have come to understand about him: his brilliance in using language and his creativity in technique and subject matter...[Revenge] casts an intelligent eye on the undeniable intersection of sex and violence…The title novella is told with both care and understanding of history and legend as well as astuteness in calling attention to the universality of love’s complications.” –Brad Hooper, Booklist (starred and boxed review) “There is nothing lighthearted about love, implies Millhauser, in these three dark and feverishly rich novellas…[His] portrayal of fools and self-made victims is unblinking and unsentimental. He is particularly attuned to the ways that people fall out of love…at his best dramatizing these moments of ambivalent hesitation and the disastrous effect they have on the ‘fellowships of two.’ Though he covers time-honored territory, Millhauser’s precision, coupled with his brave imagination, makes these stories as smart and fresh as they are grim.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Some of the best writing of Millhauser’s increasingly brilliant career appears in this collection of three imaginative and unusual novellas. Revenge…is a very clever psychological horror story, which creates out of simple declarative sentences a thickening atmosphere of ... “Millhauser can get drunk on words, but he’s honed his voice…and uses his lush prose and archetypal motifs to trace the outer arcs of passion, places where eros and violence meet….As the old maps say: Here be monsters. This writer is in love with a large, very beautiful tiger, and at its best the fiction he produces is an exquisite negotiation with the beast..” –Laura Miller, New York Times Book Review (front page review) “The secret lies in the unhurried elegance of his sentences: Millhauser know how not to overwrite, to let exactly as many small words as necessary do the work rather than straining to impress. He never fumbles a word out of place, never lets fall an unfelicitous phrase, and especially never looks down during his high-wire imaginative act.”
Industry reviews
"Some of the best writing of Millhauser's increasingly brilliant career appears in this collection of three imaginative and unusual novellas." Kirkus Reviews (12/15/2002) "...Milhauser can get drunk on words, but as he's honed his voice he's shed much of the excess....[H]e's used his lush prose and archetypal motifs to trace the outer arcs of passion, places where eros and violence meet....Romantic triangles, illicit love and jealousy...are recurring elements in these three novellas." New York Times Book Review - Laura Miller (03/09/2003)

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0375415408
Title : The King in the Tree: Three Novellas
EAN : 9780375415401
Authors : Steven Millhauser
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Knopf
Publication Date : 2003-02-18
Pages : 256
List Price (MSRP) : 23.00
Height : 1.0600 inches
Width : 6.0800 inches
Length : 8.6800 inches
Weight : 1.0100 pounds
Keywords : United States, Contemporary, Literary, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : Good

Ex-library book in good condition. All usual stamps and markings. Pages are clean and the binding is tight.

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