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The King in the Tree: Three
Novellas
by Steven Millhauser
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Full of passion, trysting, and fatal pleasures, these three brilliant
novellas are rich with the many gifts of our most persistently imaginative
romancer.
"No one alive writes better about yearning and heartbreak than Steven
Millhauser. So enchanting is his prose, so delicate his touch, that one
surrenders to his plangent word-music as one does to the wistful piano pieces of
Ravel and Chopin. Reading Millhauser, there are times when you simply lay the
book aside and say to yourself, 'I had not known that sentences could be so
simple and so beautiful.'"
Reviewed by: Michael Dirda in The Washington Post
