Edwin Mullhouse, a novelist at 10, is mysteriously dead at 11. As a memorial, Edwin's bestfriend, Jeffrey Cartwright, decides that the life of this great American writer must be told. He follows Edwin's development from his preverbal first noises through his love for comic books to the fulfillment of his literary genius in the remarkable novel, Cartoons.

Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954

Steven Millhauser

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Voices in the Night: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

Vintage

A disenchanted romantic lives a life in yearning, longing for death, love, respite from boredom, he plays Russian roulette with a mysterious fellow &amp; longs for the sickly Eleanor who is closeted in a room full of strange &amp; magical toys.

Portrait of a Romantic

Pocket

This collection of short stories evokes worlds both strange and familiar in tales that chronicle such events as a first unwanted kiss and a boy's coming of age

In the Penny Arcade

Short Stories & Anthologies

The Barnum Museum

Contemporary

Phoenix

This is a witty and elegiac novel in the form of a biography, from a Pulitzer Prize winning author. At the age of 2, Edwin Mullhouse was reciting Shakespeare. At 10, he had written a novel that critics would call a work of undoubted genius. At 11, Edwin Mullhouse was mysteriously dead. Documenting every stage of this brief kife was Jeffrey Cartwright, Edwin's best friend and biographer - and the narrator of this dazzling portrait of the artist as a young child. As Jeffrey follows Edwin through hispre-verbal experiments with language, his infatuations with comic books and the troubled 2nd grade temptress Rose Dorn, and, finally, into the year of his literary glory and untimely demise, Edwin Mullhouse plunges us back into the pleasures and terrors of childhood, even as it plays havoc with our notions of genius and biography.

Edwin Mullhouse : The Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943-54, by Jeffrey Cartwright

Phoenix Books

Martin Dressler is the son of a cigar maker, born in late 19th-century New York. As Martin approaches manhood, it is rapidly clear that his ambitions stretch far further than inheriting his father's shop, as he moves first to take a job in a hotel, then to open a restaurant, and rapidly ascends to become a builder of hotels of his own. He is a classic entrepreneur, a young man who has the audacity to make his dreams - and the American Dream - come true on the grandest possible scale. But when Martin sets out to build the Grand Cosmos, a hotel that rivals Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast in its scale, and aims to rival the world itself in its scope, this mesmerizing novel finally exposes the ambiguity of the American dream and the perils and wonder of human ambition and human imagination.

Martin Dressler the Tale of an American

Phoenix Paperbacks

Best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, Steven Millhauser has always been most at home with the short story. This new collection of twelve stories puts his rich and varied talents on dazzling display, demonstrating why this singular writer is acclaimed as one of the most subtle, magical, and penetrating explorers of the American imagination. Whether chronicling the phastasmagoric excesses of an amusement park entrepreneur in "Paradise Park," or the dangerously addictive delights of the largest department store ever conceived in "The Dream of the Consortium," Millhauser's fictions explore not only the magnificent obsessions of the unfettered imagination, but also the darker, subterranean desires that fuel them. From the odd corners of life that persist below the sunlit world in "Beneath the Cellars of Our Town," to views from the heavens in "Flying Carpets" and "Balloon Flight, 1870," he takes us on a tour beyond the everyday, to realms we recognize only in dreams. In "The Way Out," an illicit affair leads an exhausted lover into a sunrise appointment with death. In "Claire de Lune" and "The Sisterhood of Night," he magically evokes the enigmatic otherness of the adolescent soul. Like the knife thrower in the title story, Millhauser's fictions beguile and beckon us into hitherto unexplored realms, where spectral truths, enchanting vistas, and the mysteries of art await us.

The Knife Thrower

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

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.

Enchanted Night

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Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954

Voices in the Night: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

Portrait of a Romantic

In the Penny Arcade

The Barnum Museum

Edwin Mullhouse : The Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943-54, by Jeffrey Cartwright

Martin Dressler the Tale of an American

The Knife Thrower

In the Penny Arcade

Enchanted Night