The king in the tree : three novellas / Steven Millhauser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millhauser, Steven.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mark, King of Cornwall (Legendary character)--Fiction.

Mark, King of Cornwall (Legendary character).

Juan, Don (Legendary character)--Fiction.

Juan.

Juan, Don (Legendary character).

Tristan (Legendary character)--Fiction.

Tristan.

Tristan (Legendary character).

Iseult (Legendary character)--Fiction.

Iseult.

Iseult (Legendary character).

Romance fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

241 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage Contemporaries edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 2004.

Summary:

A master of literary transformation, Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser turns his attention to the transformations of love in these three hypnotic novellas. While ostensibly showing her home to a prospective buyer, the narrator of "Revenge" unfolds an origami-like narrative of betrayal and psychic violence. In "An Adventure of Don Juan" the legendary seducer seeks out new diversion on an English country estate with devastating results. And the title novella retells the story of Tristan and Ysolt from the agonized perspective of King Mark, a husband who compulsively looks for evidence of his wife's adultery yet compulsively denies what he finds. Combining enchantment as ancient as Sheherezade's with up-to-the-minute acuity and unease, The King in the Tree is Millhauser at his best.

Contents:

Revenge

Adventure of Don Juan

King in the tree.

Contains:

Revenge.

Adventure of Don Juan.

ISBN:

1400031737

9781400031733

OCLC:

56494256