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The King in the Tree: Three
Novellas by Steven Millhauser 23.00 |
Full of passion, trysting, and fatal pleasures, these three brilliant novellas are rich with the many gifts of our most persistently imaginative romancer.
"No one alive writes better about yearning and heartbreak than Steven Millhauser. So enchanting is his prose, so delicate his touch, that one surrenders to his plangent word-music as one does to the wistful piano pieces of Ravel and Chopin. Reading Millhauser, there are times when you simply lay the book aside and say to yourself, 'I had not known that sentences could be so simple and so beautiful.'"
Reviewed by: Michael Dirda in The Washington Post
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