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Steven millhauser's new and selected stories brings together seven new stories with fourteen more drawn from his earlier collections. The stories run the gamut from a sort of sherwood anderson (for a modern audience) feel, to fabulist tales with absur... Read More
Author's note that introduces the collection. In it millhauser sets out the history of the the arabian nights. In so doing he explains its enchantment for him and its influence on his work.
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What ever way you go about it i suggest that you start with the essay the eighth voyage of sinbad
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In august eschenberg the tale of an extraordinary automaton creator in eisenheim the illusionist
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The new stories in this volume are superb continuing millhausers claim to being one of the greatest short fiction writers currently working in english
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Eight of them were first published in the new yorker
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Whats seductive is mysterious and can never be known
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And say in we others a ghost story for lack of a better term
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The eighth voyage of sinbad is more essay than story
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Youll see it in his story the barnum museum
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Take this sentence from we others for although we avoid others of our kind we are also compelled toward one another by some inner command which is perhaps no more than the desire of the freak to lift the flap of the sideshow tent
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Or this excerpt from later in the same story what didnt make sense was my behavior toward andrea
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