The Knife Thrower (27 page)

FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, MARCH 1999

Copyright
©
1998 by Steven Millhauser

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, in 1998.

Some stories have appeared in slightly different form in the following publications: “The Knife Thrower,” “The Sisterhood of Night,” and “The Dream of the Consortium” in
Harper’s Magazine
; “A Visit” in
The New Yorker
; “Balloon Flight, 1870” in
The Yale Review
; “Flying Carpets” in
The Paris Review
; “Paradise Park” in
Grand Street
; “The Way Out” in
Story
; “The New Automaton Theater” in
Canto
; and “Kaspar Hauser Speaks” in
The Kenyon Review.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Crown edition as follows:

Millhauser, Steven.
The knife thrower and other stories / Steven Millhauser.—1st ed.
p.    cm.
Contents: The knife thrower—A visit—The sisterhood of night—The
way out—Flying carpets—The new automaton theater—Clair de
lune—The dream of the consortium—Balloon flight, 1870—Paradise
Park—Kaspar Hauser speaks—Beneath the cellars of our town.
I. Title.
PS3563.I422K58
1998
813′.54—dc21 97-45796

eISBN: 978-0-307-76387-7

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