Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser
Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser
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Dangerous Laughter

Author: Steven Millhauser

Narrator: Adam Grupper, George Guidall, Sharon Washington, Andy Paris, Jim Frangione

Unabridged: 9 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/30/2011

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

In this acclaimed collection of short stories, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Millhauser shares the dark suspense and humor that have gained him a cult following. Millhauser's imagination and creativity are on full display with stories featuring artists gone mad, egomaniacal architects, and a historical society that's given up its chronicling of history. Characterized by "phenomenal clarity and rapacious movement" each story "focuses on the misery wrought by misdirected human desire and ambition." (Publishers Weekly)

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on December 17, 2020

Every little thing needs its little opposite so without a tiny mouse there would be no cartoon about a big foolish cat trying to catch a smart mouse… The stories in the collection are very diverse, belong to the different genres but all of them show artful originality… He said that books weren’t made......more

Goodreads review by Oscar on January 16, 2021

Steven Millhauser, nacido en Nueva York en 1943, ganador del Premio Pulitzer por ‘Martin Dressler’, es un escritor esquivo, al estilo de Salinger y Pynchon, un escritor que huye de las entrevistas y al que no le gusta ser fotografiado. Hace unos años, saltó a la fama cuando se adaptó un cuento suyo,......more

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on February 07, 2016

Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser is a difficult book to rate. It is a collection of short stories, but one has stretch the definition of "story" by quite a lot to call some of them by that name. Many are what can be called "sketches" - of an idea, of a person or of a situation. All of them ar......more

Goodreads review by JimZ on January 15, 2021

Excellent collection of stories. 12 of the 13 stories were grouped into 3 parts. I think that is what attracted me to wanting to read the collection. I thought within a collection of stories they might be related to each other (i.e., character in one story also being in other stories), but they were......more

Goodreads review by Shawn on September 20, 2010

Thanks to a good friend, I have now been introduced to this exceptional writer. It always pleases me to find new, inventive writers who touch on my interests yet are writing in the "lit" world, as it implies to me a continuum of writing, without having to resort to either strict definitions of genre......more