Disruptions : stories / Steven Millhauser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millhauser, Steven, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Civilization--21st century--Fiction.

United States.

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

viii, 270 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

One summer night

After the beheading

Guided tour

Late

The little people

Theater of shadows

The fight

A haunted house story

The summer of ladders

The circle of punishment

Green

Thank you for your patience

A tired town

Kafka in high school

A common predicament

The change

He takes, she takes

The column dwellers of our town

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.

Other Format:

Online version: Millhauser, Steven. Disruptions

ISBN:

9780593535417

0593535413

9780593468883

0593468880

OCLC:

1332788800