In The Penny Arcade

Millhauser, Steven

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 a clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supersedes that of the refined and beautiful, to 'Cathay', a kingdom whose wonders include landscape paintings executed on the bodies of court ladies.

EAN

9780753808221

Publisher

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Published

2 December 1999

Pages

176