A master of literary transformation, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler turns his attention to the transformations of love in these three hypnotic novellas. โข โNo one alive writes better about yearning and heartbreakโฆ. Before such mastery, a reader can do nothing but bow his head.โ โThe Washington Post Book World
While ostensibly showing her home to a prospective buyer, the narrator of โRevengeโ unfolds an origami-like narrative of betrayal and psychic violence. In โAn Adventure of Don Juanโ 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 wifeโs adultery yet compulsively denies what he finds. Combining enchantment as ancient as Sheherezadeโs with up-to-the-minute acuity and unease, The King in the Tree is Millhauser at his best.