The Barnum Museum: Stories

Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Автор: Миллхаузер Стивен

Язык: английский

Год: 1997

Издатель: Dalkey Archive Press

Добавил: Admin 26 Авг 14

Проверил: Admin 26 Авг 14

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Аннотация

The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Mustard; the Barnum Museum, a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it; a bored dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman — and loses her to an imaginary man! — and a legendary magician so skilled at sleight-of-hand that he is pursued by police for the crime of erasing the line between the real and the conjured.