Steven Millhauser, "The Room in the Attic"
A boy strikes up a friendship with a girl who lives in total darkness.(from Dangerous Laughter)
Kick ass. This was long and crazy one. The main guy isn't an unreliable narrator in the more common sense, that you can't count on his judgments. No, this kid is just a bad reporter. Ask some question, man! Do some investigating. Tell us what you mean when you say confusing things. No, don't. The story's better this way, maybe? No. I wanna know.
Read this one on the plane to St. Louis.
posted by Patrick Rapa @ 10:44 PM
2 Comments:
Millhauser is the best!
I haven't read this yet, but it sounds just as surreal as all his other works.
The title story in this collection, first published in Tin House, is so good, so Millhauserian.
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