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Disruptions

Written by: Steven Millhauser
Narrated by: Gisela Chípe, Vas Eli, Arthur Morey
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AN NPR AND NEW YORKER 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

Here 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. Disruptions is a collection of provocative, bracingly original new work from a writer at the peak of his form.

©2023 Steven Millhauser (P)2023 Random House Audio
Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Short Story
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“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.” —Charles McGrath, The New Yorker

“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 The New Yorker, where 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.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times

“Cause for celebration.... Once again his precision shines bright.” —Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books

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