The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from "August Eschenburg, " the story of the clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supercedes that of the refined and beautiful, to "Cathay, " a kingdom whose wonders include elaborate landscape paintings executed on the eyelids and nipples of court ladies.
- ISBN10 0394546601
- ISBN13 9780394546605
- Publish Date 12 December 1985
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 28 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Alfred A. Knopf
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 164
- Language English