{"product_id":"disruptions-stories-9780593468883","title":"Disruptions: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eAN NPR AND \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere 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. \u003ci\u003eDisruptions \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of provocative, bracingly original new work from a writer at the peak of his form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSTEVEN MILLHAUSER is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the novel \u003ci\u003eMartin Dressler\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1997, and \u003ci\u003eWe Others\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of The Story Prize in 2011 and a finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award. His work has been translated into eighteen languages, and his story \"Eisenheim the Illusionist\" was the basis of the 2006 film \u003ci\u003eThe Illusionist\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51201532231954,"sku":"9780593468883","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7c16a9c3-9e67-4318-bafe-987efeb35789.jpg?v=1748525083","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/disruptions-stories-9780593468883","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}