Product Description: The invasion of the future has begun.Literary legends including Steven Millhauser, Junot Diáz, Amiri Baraka, and Katharine Dunn have attacked the borders of the every day. Like time traveling mad-scientists, they have concocted outrageous creations from the future...read more

From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories—provocative, funny, disturbing, enchanting—that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit. Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small town life, Steven Millhauser further reveals in Voices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant and dazzling effect. Here are stories of wondrously imaginative hyperrealism, stories that pose unforgettably unsettling what-ifs, or that find barely perceivable evils within the safe boundaries of our towns, homes, and even within our bodies. Here, too, are stories culled from religion and fables: Samuel, who hears the voice of God calling him in the night; a young, pre-enlightenment Buddha, who searches for his purpose in life; Rapunzel and her Prince, who struggle to fit the real world to their dream. Heightened by magic, the divine, and the uncanny, shot through with sly and winning humor, Voices in the Night seamlessly combines the whimsy and surprise of the familiar with intoxicating fantasies that take us beyond our daily lives, all done with the hallmark sleight of hand and astonishing virtuosity of one of our greatest contemporary storytellers.

Product Description: PEN/Faulkner Award FinalistFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination.Steven Millhauser’s fiction has consistently, and to dazzling effect, dissolved the boundaries between reality and fantasy, waking life and dreams, the past and the future, darkness and light, love and lust...read more

Portrays a businessman at the turn of the century, starting out as a clerk in his father's cigar store, and eventually becoming the proprietor of several hotels, looking at the lessons he learns on his rise to fortune, and after his collapse

In his first book since his 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Martin Dressler, the author presents a collection of short stories ranging from a magical tale of night baseball to a meditation on adolescent alienation. 35,000 first printing.

A compilation of short fiction features thirteen tales, including 'Cat 'n' Mouse,' a reimagining of the conflict between cartoon rivals, along with stories grouped into three sections--Vanishing Acts, Impossible Architectures, and Heretical Histories.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler explores the diverse faces and shapes of love in three novellas--'Revenge,' a study of erotic love and betrayal, as well as two works, 'An Adventure of Don Juan' and 'The King in the Tree,' which transform classic fables into original tales of romance. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler explores the diverse faces and shapes of love in three novellas--'Revenge,' a study of erotic love and betrayal, as well as two works, 'An Adventure of Don Juan' and 'The King in the Tree,' which transform classic fables into original tales of romance. 17,500 first printing.

A waxing moon illuminates the inhabitants of a Connecticut town on a steamy summer night.

An outstanding, unforgettable collection of short stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler.

On a hot summer night in Connecticut, the coming of the full moon transforms the lives of a young teenage girl, a failed writer living in his mother's attic, three adolescent male troublemakers, an elderly woman, and others. By the author of Martin Dressler. Reprint.

This collection of short stories evokes worlds both strange and familiar in tales that chronicle such events as a first unwanted kiss and a boy's coming of age (view table of contents)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler presents three exuberant novellas that crisscross the line between fancy and reality, including the tale of a gentle eccentric who constructs an elaborate alternative universe. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store.  In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied  by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner...read more

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The best friend of a child genius follows the gifted writer's brief career until his death at the age of eleven (view table of contents)

Product Description: A disenchanted romantic lives a life in yearning, longing for death, love, respite from boredom, he plays Russian roulette with a mysterious fellow & longs for the sickly Eleanor who is closeted in a room full of strange & magical toys.

Carl Hausman stumbles into the underworld and is led by Morpheus, the genial master of that realm, on a mesmerizing tour through the pleasures and sorrows of art, love, illusion, and reality

Product Description: Edwin Mullhouse, a novelist at 10, is mysteriously dead at 11. As a memorial, Edwin's bestfriend, Jeffrey Cartwright, decides that the life of this great American writer must be told. He follows Edwin's development from his preverbal first noises through his love for comic books to the fulfillment of his literary genius in the remarkable novel, Cartoons...read more