The Barnum Museum (American Literature Series)
by Steven Millhauser
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Author: Steven MillhauserEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-14
ISBN: 1564781798
Number of pages: 237
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Summary of The Barnum Museum (American Literature Series)
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.Ingeniously written and orchestrated, each exhibit in The Barnum Museum will compel you to continue, each story becoming a lure to the next.
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