Disruptions: Stories

By Steven Millhauser

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593468880
• ISBN13: 9780593468883
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"