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The King in the Tree

(2003)
Three Novellas
A collection of stories by

 
 
"A prose that doesn't merely aspire to the condition of music but actually achieves it."-Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

"Irresistible . . . Millhauser is a virtuoso of waking dreams."-The New Yorker

"[He] plunges us into the very heartland of human complexity and folly."-Frederic Tuten, New York Times Book Review

"[Millhauser] creates a world that is exquisite in its tortures and terrors, a world which only the heightened consciousness of an artist of a dreamer could inhabit."-William Kennedy

"Such intelligence, wit and compassion that a reviewer's catalogue of superlatives is inadequate to it."-Jonathan Yardley

"Millhauser's writing is dazzling . . . [with] heart as well as fierce intelligence, and that combination, to my mind, signifies greatness."-David Leavitt, Esquire


Genre: Literary Fiction

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