MILLHAUSER, Steven.
The Barnum Museum.
New York: Poseidon Press , 1990.
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"Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate to our dreams": First Edition of The Barnum Museum; Signed by Steven Millhauser and Actor Edward Norton
First edition of this classic work by "a writer who vivifies the act of reading. . . Like Borges and Italo Calvino, he takes us inside the labyrinth of prose” (Chicago Tribune). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed on the title page by Steven Millhauser and actor Edward Norton, who starred in the film The Illusionist based on a short story in this work. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by
“The sentences are of Cartesian clarity. . . . Irresistible. . . . Think of these stories as literary fairy tales, lost characters from The Arabian Nights, the further ghost stories of an antiquary, the slightly etiolated blooms of a late Romantic imagination. Steven Millhauser is, all in all, a wonderfully appropriate writer for our very own fin de siecle" (Washington Post).
The Barnum Museum.
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