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2246858Dangerous Laughterhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/dangerous-laughter/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1878956/c78459ab-fcff-4b2d-b939-cb3650dad879.jpg?v=638342112108830000112124MXNKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p>From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of <em>Martin Dressler</em>hailed by <em>The New Yorker</em> as a virtuoso of waking dreamscomes a dazzling collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession.</p><p>"Remarkable ... Not just brilliant but prescient." <em>The New York Times Book Review</em></p><p>In <em>Dangerous Laughter</em>, Steven Millhauser transports us to unknown universes that uncannily resemble our own.</p><p>The collection is divided into three parts that fit seamlessly together as a whole. It opens with a bang, as Cat n Mouse reimagines the deadly ritual between cartoon rivals in a comedy of dynamite and anvilsa masterly prologue that sets the stage for the alluring, very grown-up twists that follow.</p><p>Part one, Vanishing Acts, features stories of risk and escape: a lonely woman disappears without a trace; a high school boy becomes entangled with his best friends troubled sister; and a group of teenagers play a treacherous game that pushes them deep into the kingdom of forbidden things.</p><p>Excess reigns in the vivid, haunting places of Part twos Impossible Architectures, where domes enclose whole cities, and a kings master miniaturist creates objects so tiny that soon his entire world is invisible.</p><p>Finally, Heretical Histories presents startling alternatives to the remembered past. A Precursor of the Cinema proposes a new, enigmatic form of illusion. And in the astonishing The Wizard of West Orange a famous inventor sets out to simulate the sense of touchbut success brings disturbing consequences.</p><p>Sensual, mysterious, <em>Dangerous Laughter</em> is a mesmerizing journey through brilliantly realized labyrinths of mortal pleasures that stretch the boundaries of the ordinary world to their limitsand occasionally beyond.</p>...2075354Dangerous Laughter112124https://www.gandhi.com.mx/dangerous-laughter/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1878956/c78459ab-fcff-4b2d-b939-cb3650dad879.jpg?v=638342112108830000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20089780307268730_W3siaWQiOiIyNzQwY2FkZC1jNmM2LTQyYjMtYmE4Yi0yOGY5OGVlZDkwMzIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjE0MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjE0LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjEyNiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDVUMDY6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780307268730_<p>Thirteen darkly comic stories, <strong>Dangerous Laughter</strong> is a mesmerizing journey that stretches the boundaries of the ordinary world.</p>...(*_*)9780307268730_<p>From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of <em>Martin Dressler</em>hailed by <em>The New Yorker</em> as a virtuoso of waking dreamscomes a dazzling collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession.</p><p>"Remarkable ... Not just brilliant but prescient." <em>The New York Times Book Review</em></p><p>In <em>Dangerous Laughter</em>, Steven Millhauser transports us to unknown universes that uncannily resemble our own.</p><p>The collection is divided into three parts that fit seamlessly together as a whole. It opens with a bang, as Cat n Mouse reimagines the deadly ritual between cartoon rivals in a comedy of dynamite and anvilsa masterly prologue that sets the stage for the alluring, very grown-up twists that follow.</p><p>Part one, Vanishing Acts, features stories of risk and escape: a lonely woman disappears without a trace; a high school boy becomes entangled with his best friends troubled sister; and a group of teenagers play a treacherous game that pushes them deep into the kingdom of forbidden things.</p><p>Excess reigns in the vivid, haunting places of Part twos Impossible Architectures, where domes enclose whole cities, and a kings master miniaturist creates objects so tiny that soon his entire world is invisible.</p><p>Finally, Heretical Histories presents startling alternatives to the remembered past. A Precursor of the Cinema proposes a new, enigmatic form of illusion. And in the astonishing The Wizard of West Orange a famous inventor sets out to simulate the sense of touchbut success brings disturbing consequences.</p><p>Sensual, mysterious, <em>Dangerous Laughter</em> is a mesmerizing journey through brilliantly realized labyrinths of mortal pleasures that stretch the boundaries of the ordinary world to their limitsand occasionally beyond.</p>...9780307268730_Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_dc774e16-1146-46ec-8e90-1683be9832c6_9780307268730;9780307268730_9780307268730Steven MillhauserInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-2f276082-1902-4e00-ad4b-b078374d5ad0.epub2008-02-12T00:00:00+00:00Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group