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Steven Millhauser is our preeminent literary explorer of the imagination. In three brilliant novellas, he brings to life three marvelous invented worlds and their odd, dark, and often wondrous relation with the larger kingdom of the real world

Steven Millhauser is our preeminent literary explorer of the imagination. In three brilliant novellas, he brings to life three marvelous invented worlds and their odd, dark, and often wondrous relation with the larger kingdom of the real world. In "The Little Kingdom of J. Franklin Payne," the quiet attic study, the grainy white rice paper, and the panels Payne draws for his animated cartoons gradually seduce the artist away from domestic life and into an invented world on the other side of the moon.

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In "The Little Kingdom of J. Franklin Payne," a gentle eccentric constructs an elaborate alternate universe that is all the more appealing for being transparently unreal.

Steven Millhauser (born August 3, 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler. Millhauser was born in New York City, grew up in Connecticut, and earned a . from Columbia University in 1965. He then pursued a doctorate in English at Brown University. He never completed his dissertation but wrote parts of Edwin Mullhouse and From the Realm of Morpheus in two separate stays at Brown

Anyone who hasn't read "The King in the Tree" is really missing something extraordinarily special.

Anyone who hasn't read "The King in the Tree" is really missing something extraordinarily special. The first novella, "Revenge" was simply not to my taste but it is perfectly crafted and oozing in irony and sarcasm.

With Little Kingdoms, Steven Millhauser proves his fantasy mettle once again

Three distinct, imaginative worlds are created in three novellas by the author of In the Penny Arcade, each one serving as a fantastic mirror to the real world. With Little Kingdoms, Steven Millhauser proves his fantasy mettle once again. The three novellas, excellent in their various ways, kept me glued to the pages. Of Millhauser's writing: what can be said?

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Steven Millhauser writes that kind of book. All three of the novellas that make up The King in the Tree inhabit eerie realms of the imagination

Steven Millhauser writes that kind of book. The San Diego Union-Tribune. The King in the Tree is a flawless retelling of the story of Tristan and Iseult. All three of the novellas that make up The King in the Tree inhabit eerie realms of the imagination. Here men and women yearn for love, but it’s a poison more often than a tonic. All three of the novellas have Millhauser’s gifted storytelling voice going for them-a voice that grabs the reader by the ear and makes him pay attention. Millhauser’s characters are poignantly likable.