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The knife thrower and other stories

Stories on the role of art in society. In the title piece, a knife thrower's vanity--he has to prove he is the best--and the audience's thirst for blood lead to tragedy, while in Paradise Park an amusement park outdoes its competition in exploiting man's base instincts.

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  • "Knife thrower"
  • "Knife thrower"@en
  • "Knife thrower and other stories"

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  • "Stories on the role of art in society. In the title piece, a knife thrower's vanity--he has to prove he is the best--and the audience's thirst for blood lead to tragedy, while in Paradise Park an amusement park outdoes its competition in exploiting man's base instincts."
  • "Stories on the role of art in society. In the title piece, a knife thrower's vanity--he has to prove he is the best--and the audience's thirst for blood lead to tragedy, while in Paradise Park an amusement park outdoes its competition in exploiting man's base instincts."@en
  • "Whether chronicling the phantasmagoric excesses of an amusement park entrepreneur in "Paradise Park," or the dangerously addictive delights of the largest department store ever conceived in "The Dream of the Consortium," Millhauser's fictions explore not only the magnificent obsessions of the unfettered imagination, but also the darker, subterranean desires that fuel them. From the odd corners of life that persist below the sunlit world in "Beneath the Cellars of Our Town," to views from the heavens in "Flying Carpets" and "Balloon Flight, 1870," he takes us on a tour beyond the everyday, to realms we recognize only in dreams."
  • "Whether chronicling the phantasmagoric excesses of an amusement park entrepreneur in "Paradise Park," or the dangerously addictive delights of the largest department store ever conceived in "The Dream of the Consortium," Millhauser's fictions explore not only the magnificent obsessions of the unfettered imagination, but also the darker, subterranean desires that fuel them. From the odd corners of life that persist below the sunlit world in "Beneath the Cellars of Our Town," to views from the heavens in "Flying Carpets" and "Balloon Flight, 1870," he takes us on a tour beyond the everyday, to realms we recognize only in dreams."@en

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  • "Nouvelles américaines"
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "El Lanzador de cuchillos y otros cuentos"
  • "Metatelʹ nozheĭ : rasskazy"
  • "The knife thrower and other stories"
  • "The knife thrower and other stories"@en
  • "The knife thrower, and other stories"
  • "The knife thrower ; and other stories"@en
  • "The knife thrower and other stories : nouvelles"
  • "El lanzador de cuchillos y otros cuentos"@es

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