Disruptions: Stories

AN NPR AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the short story, the culmination of a five-decade career: work that takes us beneath the placid surface of suburban life into the elusive strangeness of the everyday

Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A housewife drinks alone in her Connecticut living room. A guillotine glimmers above a sleepy town green. A pre-recorded customer service message sends a caller into a reverie of unspeakable yearning. With the deft touch and funhouse-mirror perspectives for which he has won countless admirers, Steven Millhauser gives us the towns, marriages, and families of a quintessential American lifestyle that is at once instantly recognizable and profoundly unsettling. Disruptions is a collection of provocative, bracingly original new work from a writer at the peak of his form.

Author: Steven Millhauser
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/15/2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.33w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780593468883
Language: English