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Millhauser, Steven
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Fiction
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1997
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Dalkey Archive Press
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English
β 146 KB
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The Barnum Museum stories
β Scribed by Steven Millhauser
- Book ID
- 100191009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press;Dalkey Archive Press
- Year
- 1990;2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 150 KB
- Edition
- 1. Dalkey Archive paperback ed., 2. printing
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1564781798
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Mustard; the Barnum Museum, a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it; a bored dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman--and loses her to an imaginary man!--and a legendary magician so skilled at sleight-of-hand that he is pursued by police for the crime of erasing the line between the real and the conjured.
Ingeniously written and orchestrated, each exhibit in The Barnum Museum will compel you to continue, each story becoming a lure to the next.
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