Enchanted Night
A Novella
Published on 18. December 2007
140 pages
978-0-307-42575-1 (ISBN)
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler comes a stunningly original new book set in a Connecticut town over one incredible summer night. The delicious cast of characters includes a band of teenage girls who break into homes and simply leave notes reading "We Are Your Daughters," a young woman who meets a phantom lover on the tree swing in her back yard, a beautiful mannequin who steps down from her department store window, and all the dolls "no longer believed in," left abandoned in the attic, who magically come to life.
With each new book, Steven Millhauser radically stretches not only the limits of fiction but also of his seemingly limitless abilities. Enchanted Night is a remarkable piece of fiction, a compact tale of loneliness and desire that is as hypnotic and rich as the language Millhauser uses to weave it.
With each new book, Steven Millhauser radically stretches not only the limits of fiction but also of his seemingly limitless abilities. Enchanted Night is a remarkable piece of fiction, a compact tale of loneliness and desire that is as hypnotic and rich as the language Millhauser uses to weave it.
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STEVEN MILLHAUSER lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Praise
- Restless
- Chorus of Night Voices
- The Man in the Attic
- The Dream of the Mannequin
- Outlaws
- The Window
- The Piper in the Woods
- On the Hill
- Laura in Moonlight
- A Woman Waiting
- Song of the Field Insects
- Three Young Men
- The Woman Who Lives Alone
- The Moon and the Mannequin
- The Children Wake
- Stillness
- The Man with Green Eyes
- Haverstraw Speaks
- Chorus of Night Voices
- The Dolls Wake
- The Swing
- In the Library
- The Man with Shiny Black Hair
- The Pleasures of Window Gazing
- The Beach on a Summer Night
- Secrets
- The Children Set Forth
- Black Masks
- Laura Follows the Moon
- Con Amor de la Muerte
- The White Flower
- Danny Alone
- Skintight
- Mannequin Mischief
- Words Heard Under the Spruces
- Laura in the Thicket
- Chorus of Night Voices
- Haverstraw Takes His Leave
- Song of the Field Insects
- How to Live
- The Cricket Bluegrass Band
- Good Night
- Laura Invisible
- Danny in the Back Yard
- Danny's Song to the Moon
- Visitors in the Night
- Kisses
- The Comb
- Coop Along the Railroad Tracks
- Chorus of Night Voices
- Pierrot and Columbine
- Haverstraw in Moonlight
- Chorus of Night Voices
- The Children Enter the Woods
- Danny and the Goddess
- Living Room and Moon
- Under the Spruces
- Dance of the Dolls
- Song of the One-eyed Cuddly Bear
- The Garbage Can
- Dark Party
- Pictures in a Gallery
- Coop and his Lady
- An Encounter
- The Piper in the Woods
- Danny Waking
- A Little Change
- Young
- Chorus of Night Voices
- Coop Alone
- The Woman Who Lives Alone Shows ...
- Haverstraw Walking Home
- Columbine
- Dawn
- About the Author
- Also by Steven MillHauser
- Copyright Page
