Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine. David Rollow, *Boston Sunday Globe* From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagina
We Others: New & Selected Stories
β Scribed by Millhauser, Steven
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 284 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
A collection of short works considers the boundaries between real and fantasy life and features such protagonists as a knife thrower, ghosts, and a cartoon cat and mouse.
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