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Book

Disruptions : stories

Call Number

  • FICTION MILL (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

Physical Description

viii, 270 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A housewife drinks alone in her Connecticut living room. A guillotine glimmers above a sleepy town green. A pre-recorded customer service message sends a caller into a reverie of unspeakable yearning. With the deft touch and funhouse-mirror perspectives for which he has won countless admirers, Steven Millhauser gives us the towns, marriages, and families of a quintessential American lifestyle that is at once instantly recognizable and profoundly unsettling. Disruptions is a provocative, utterly original new collection from a writer at the peak of his form"--

Notes

"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.

Contents

  • One summer night
  • After the beheading
  • Guided tour
  • Late
  • The little people
  • Theater of shadows
  • The fight
  • A haunted house story
  • The summer of ladders
  • The circle of punishment
  • Green
  • Thank you for your patience
  • A tired town
  • Kafka in high school
  • A common predicament
  • The change
  • He takes, she takes
  • The column dwellers of our town.

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