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.
| ISBN: | 9781564781796 |
| Publication date: | 22nd May 2014 |
| Author: | Steven Millhauser, Steven Milhauser |
| Publisher: | Dalkey Archive Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | American Literature Series |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |