The Knife Thrower and Other Stories

First edition. 8vo. 256 pp. Quarter-bound black cloth over red paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine; red endpapers. Jacket design by Whitney Cookman (priced $22 to front flap). Issued in a first printing of 35,000 copies.

A New York Times Notable Book of 1998. Millhauser's fourth collection of short stories, some previously published in journals, such as The Paris Review, Harper's Magazine, and The New Yorker. It includes 'The Sisterhood of Night', which was turned into a mystery thriller film directed by Caryn Waechter from a screenplay by Marilyn Fu.

By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer. "Mr. Millhauser possesses a bountiful imagination and an ability to catch his perceptions in a bright butterfly net of prose". –Michiko Kakutani, New York Times