The King in the Tree: Three Novellas

From the author of Edwin Mullhouse and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Martin Dressler: three dazzling novellas about the many shapes of love.“Revenge” is a tour de force about erotic love and betrayal, told through the voice of a woman showing her home to a stranger with a disturbing secret. As the once-happy wife moves from living room to bedroom, she insinuates herself into her guest’s (and the reader’s) mind—and we witness the gradual unfolding ...

By Steven Millhauser
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf; 1 edition (February 18, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0375415408
ISBN-13: 978-0375415401
Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 1 x 8.6 inches
Amazon Rank: 3252126
Format: PDF Text TXT ebook

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Three novellas, at roughly 50, 80, and 100 pages each. All have to do with adultery. All three explore a curious state of stasis, where passion is undiminished, but no further move seems possible, a kind of amatory checkmate. The two longer stories,

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