In the Penny Arcade

By (author): "Steven Millhauser"
Publish Date: 1985
In the Penny Arcade
ISBN0753808226
ISBN139780753808221
AsinIn the Penny Arcade
Original titleIn the Penny Arcade
The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from 'August Eschenburg', the story of a clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supersedes that of the refined and beautiful, to 'Cathay', a kingdom whose wonders include landscape paintings executed on the bodies of court ladies.