King in the Tree

by Steven Millhauser

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A master of literary transformation, Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Millhauser turns his attention to the transformations of love in these three hypnotic novellas. While ostensibly showing her home to a prospective buyer, the narrator of “Revenge” unfolds an origami-like narrative of betrayal and psychic violence. In “An Adventure of Don Juan” the legendary seducer seeks out new diversion on an English country estate with devastating results. And the title novella retells the story of Tristan and Ysolt from the agonized perspective of King Mark, a husband who compulsively looks for evidence of his wife’s adultery yet compulsively denies what he finds. Combining enchantment as ancient as Sheherezade’s with up-to-the-minute acuity and unease, The King in the Tree is Millhauser at his best.
  • ISBN10 1299002048
  • ISBN13 9781299002043
  • Publish Date 1 January 2007 (first published 18 February 2003)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 21 April 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Vintage
  • Format eBook
  • Language English