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Voices in the Night
Paperback
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
General FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 080416908X
ISBN13: 9780804169080
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Mar 8 2016
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780804169080
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Mar 8 2016
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler sixteen new stories--spellbinding, masterly, sublime (The New York Times Book Review)--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.
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