- United States, Social life and customs, 20th century, Fiction
The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from "August Eschenburg," the story of the clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supercedes that of the refined and beautiful, to "Cathay," a kingdom whose wonders…
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Prestige, contemplative, open-ended and meticulous.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Steven Millhauser
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 164
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Dalkey Archive Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780753808221
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