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  The Barnum Museum: Stories (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) (Paperback) By (author) Steven Millhauser

  

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  Short Description for The Barnum Museum"A stunning paean to the power of imagination. . . . Certainly the work of one of our best writers at the top of his form. . . . So convincing that the most skeptical reader will be swept away." San Francisco Chronicle
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  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
  • Published: 25 September 2009
  • Format: Paperback 237 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781564781796 ISBN 10: 1564781798
  • Sales rank: 218,612

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• 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.