“These stories are remarkable in range.”
—Maureen Howard, Yale Review
“One of the best, most exhilarating writers in the United States today.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Steven Millhauser is a worthy descendant of Hawthorne. There are only a few stylists left in American writing, but he’s one of them.”
—Guy Davenport
“Millhauser’s new and old-fashioned tales about people confronting their own ordinariness are intelligent, graceful, and magical—told as if by someone part Hans Christian Andersen, part Sherwood Anderson.”
—Lorrie Moore
“As in a penny arcade, all manner of pretty, frightening and amazing things happen in these stories…they are about the ability of artists and children to see things anew, to remake things through the force of their own romantic yearnings, and the dangerous consequence of that gift…. Mr. Millhauser possesses a bountiful imagination, and an ability to catch his perceptions in a bright butterfly net of prose, and these gifts lend these stories a lovely afterlife, colorful and lively, in the reader’s mind.”
—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
“Exquisitely crafted…startling imagery and breathtaking style. After gracing the ’70s with two of its most intriguing and beautiful novels, Mr. Millhauser has now proven himself a miniaturist of equally astonishing ability.”
—Baltimore Sun
“Steven Millhauser makes our world turn amazing!…He continues to pursue fiction as a mysterious, magical, enlightening experience…. He draws us into his precise, luminous awareness…. We venture with him into the common corners of our ragged world, where the marvelous glows and true meanings breathe life.”
—New York Times Book Review
“In the Penny Arcade is a showcase of style and grace.”
—Washington Post Book World