<b>An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the short story, the culmination of a five-decade career: work that takes us beneath the placid surface of suburban life into the elusive strangeness of the everyday</b> <p/>Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A housewife drinks alone in her Connecticut living room. A guillotine glimmers above a sleepy town green. A pre-recorded customer service message sends a caller into a reverie of unspeakable yearning. With the deft touch and funhouse-mirror perspectives for which he has won countless admirers, Steven Millhauser gives us the towns, marriages, and families of a quintessential American lifestyle that is at once instantly recognizable and profoundly unsettling. <i>Disruptions </i>is a collection of provocative, bracingly original new work from a writer at the peak of his form.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Steven Millhauser<br><b>Publisher:</b> Knopf Publishing Group<br><b>Published:</b> 08/01/2023<br><b>Pages:</b> 288<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Hardcover<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.10lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.50h x 6.00w x 1.30d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780593535417<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Library Journal Prepub Alert</i> 03/01/2023 pg. 5<br><i>Publishers Weekly</i> 06/26/2023<br><i>Kirkus Reviews</i> 07/15/2023<br><i>Booklist</i> 07/01/2023 pg. 18<br><i>Shelf Awareness</i> 08/04/2023<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>STEVEN MILLHAUSER is the author of numerous works of fiction, including th