"Roman américain Vingtième siècle." . . . . "Short stories." . . "FICTION General." . . "Dangerous laughter thirteen stories"@en . "Dangerous laughter thirteen stories" . . "Fiction"@en . . . . . . . . . . "A collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession" . "A collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession."@en . "A collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession." . . . . "The collection is divided into three parts that fit seamlessly together as a whole. It opens with a bang, as \"Cat 'n' Mouse\" reimagines the deadly ritual between cartoon rivals in a comedy of dynamite and anvils --a masterly prologue that sets the stage for the alluring, very grown-up twists that follow. Part one, \"Vanishing Acts,\" features stories of risk and escape: a lonely woman disappears without a trace; a high school boy becomes entangled with his best friend's troubled sister; and a group of teenagers play a treacherous game that pushes them deep into \"the kingdom of forbidden things.\" Excess reigns in the vivid, haunting places of Part two's \"Impossible Architectures,\" where domes enclose whole cities, and a king's master miniaturist creates objects so tiny that soon his entire world is invisible. Finally, \"Heretical Histories\" presents startling alternatives to the remembered past. \"A Precursor of the Cinema\" proposes a new, enigmatic form of illusion. And in the astonishing \"The Wizard of West Orange\" a famous inventor sets out to simulate the sense of touch -- but success brings disturbing consequences."@en . "Dangerous laughter : thirteen stories" . "Dangerous laughter : thirteen stories"@en . . . . . . "Sammlung" . "Short stories, American"@en . . . "Short stories"@en . "Short stories" . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . "Verhalen (teksten)" . . .