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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Knife-Thrower-Steven-Millhauser/dp/0753808218/

I can't remember how I came across this - I think it was one of those 10 Authors to Read if You're a Weird Fiction N00b articles. Anyway, I'm really glad I did. Apparently Steve Milhauser is a Proper Writer, which I didn't appreciate. It shows - these are a collection of small spare stories that take immense skill to write well. And they get under your skin - from weird marriages to villages of automata specialists. And into the rise and fall of the biggest theme park on earth. They are just faintly disturbing and unforgettable. I think they're supposed to be about American Values and their essential pointlessness. But that's a rather thin way of analysing something that works its effect so well.

Definitely read. I'm going to get more of his stuff.


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