{"product_id":"disruptions-isbn-9780593468883","title":"Disruptions","description":"\u003cb\u003eAN NPR AND \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the short story, the culmination of a five-decade career: work that takes us beneath the placid surface of suburban life into the elusive strangeness of the everyday\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A housewife drinks alone in her Connecticut living room. A guillotine glimmers above a sleepy town green. A pre-recorded customer service message sends a caller into a reverie of unspeakable yearning. With the deft touch and funhouse-mirror perspectives for which he has won countless admirers, Steven Millhauser gives us the towns, marriages, and families of a quintessential American lifestyle that is at once instantly recognizable and profoundly unsettling. \u003ci\u003eDisruptions \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of provocative, bracingly original new work from a writer at the peak of his form.“Millhauser revitalizes the small-town tale, evoking the magical, the mundane, and the extravagantly madcap . . . Millhauser is the great eccentric of American fiction . . . Millhauser reminds you of Borges sometimes, of Calvino and Angela Carter at other times, even of Nabokov once in a while . . . Much as Millhauser relishes the magical, he also has a soft spot for the humdrum: the sound of a lawn sprinkler, the sight of a basketball left on a driveway. His genius is to be able to evoke both so urgently.” \u003cb\u003e—Charles McGrath, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Several of the stories are among his best . . . [One] is a bit like Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery,’ if YouTube videos of the stonings had leaked out . . . It was always a treat to find his stories in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003ewhere many have appeared over the years . . . When Millhauser is on, he hands you a periscope of his own unique design, and he allows you to really look and feel.” \u003cb\u003e—Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cause for celebration . . . Once again his precision shines bright.” \u003cb\u003e—Michael Welch, \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“More turmoil and magic in suburbia from one of America’s most accomplished short story writers . . . Each of these stories is open to interpretation as a study of prejudice, suburban narrowness, and groupthink. But Millhauser has always been too slippery a writer to pursue such obvious meaning-making; more often, the effect is that of Borges-ian strangeness and delight . . . Millhauser remains gifted at stretching time, space, and expectations.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e(starred)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Millhauser shows his mastery for the short story in a collection that consistently addresses the absurdity of modern American life . . . These characters, like Millhauser’s bizarre worlds, feel fascinatingly real.” \u003cb\u003e—Annie Tully, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A mélange of fantastical imaginings and scenes of domestic oddness . . . Millhauser exhibits a Cheeveresque curiosity about—and a fun house distortion of—a small town’s placid façade . . . This will please Millhauser’s longtime fans and earn him new admirers.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSTEVEN MILLHAUSER is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the novel \u003ci\u003eMartin Dressler\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1997, and \u003ci\u003eWe Others\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of The Story Prize in 2011 and a finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award. His work has been translated into eighteen languages, and his story \"Eisenheim the Illusionist\" was the basis of the 2006 film \u003ci\u003eThe Illusionist\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233094938853,"sku":"NP9780593468883","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593468883.jpg?v=1767725248","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/disruptions-isbn-9780593468883","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}