Steven Millhauser. (1999). Enchanted Night: A Novella. Unabridged Phoenix Books, Inc.

Steven Millhauser. 1999. Enchanted Night: A Novella. Phoenix Books, Inc.

Steven Millhauser, Enchanted Night: A Novella. Phoenix Books, Inc, 1999.

Steven Millhauser. Enchanted Night: A Novella. Unabridged Phoenix Books, Inc, 1999.

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     Steven Millhauser is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award, both for Martin Dressler. He has also won the Lannan Award and teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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ENCHANTED NIGHT The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler returns with a magical novella filled with the transforming power of the (almost) full moon. On a hot summer night in southern Connecticut, people are being awakened by a chorus of night voices. Among them are fourteen-year-old girl; a failed writer; three teenage boys looking for trouble; a gang of girls who roam the night; a lonely young man looking for love; and assorted dolls, toys, and animals long forgotten in an attic. Only Steven Millhauser could transform our childhood legends into an hypnotic adult tale of passionate enchantment, encounters with darkness and illumination, human passions, and in human awakenings.

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   • content: Millhauser's erotic fairy tale is quirky and challenging. But under the production and reading talents of Stefan Rudnicki, it's brought to life like the magical mannequin and stuffed dolls that are part of the tale. Rudnicki makes effective use of instrumental and vocal accompaniment as he reads the odd assortment of vignettes that are more like disconnected scraps of beat-poetry than chapters in a novel. His deep, clear, resonant voice hypnotically tells the story of an enchanted midsummer night when the moon brings a restless awakening upon the Connecticut townspeople--along with the appearance of a moon goddess, a goat-hoofed piper, and some disconcerting sexual episodes involving teenagers. S.E.S. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine
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   • content: In this short and stylized work, Steven Millhauser takes the ordinary event of a full moon and turns it on its head. Rather than regarding the moon with the usual fondness, an entire Connecticut town is drawn outdoors, wooed by a new kind of luminous magic. Most of the time Linda Stephens's narration suits the stylistic choices Millhauser made in his text: staccato sentences, odd observations... There are points, however, where her performance seems too aware of itself, and listeners run the risk of being swept up by linguistic eloquence and not the story itself. Happily these points are few and far enough between not to hinder the rare magic of this enchanted audiobook. R.A.P. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine
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     Starred review from October 4, 1999
     Compared to his ambitious, Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Dressler, Millhauser's new novella may seem slight, but it has a resonance and fairy tale allure that belie its slim page count. Set on a sultry summer night when an almost-full moon hovers over Southern Connecticut, the book follows a handful of small-town characters who yearn for anonymity, recognition, love or escape. Laura Engstrom, 14, seeks a solitary release from the deep restlessness that makes "her bones itch." Haverstraw, 39, lives with his mother while he works on a novel and despairs of ever achieving anything with his life. Janet Manning, 20, longs for the appearance of a "heartbreaker" she met on the beach that afternoon. A drunken romantic, William Cooper, 28, gazes into storefront displays, hoping for love and a lucky break. An old woman who lives alone yearns for company. He gracefully intertwines these lives and others with magical elements--a mannequin that comes alive, a chorus of "night voices," a silent visit from a moon goddess--to create a trance world suffused with luminescence and longing, where each character verges on the brink of fulfillment or collapse. Millhauser sketches each person's plight in a few skillful lines and repeats gestures and thoughts so their variations resound on many levels. A set of abandoned dolls, for example, awaken and pantomime a sorrowful romance that echoes Janet's desire for her young lover, Haverstraw's long-standing friendship with a friend's mother and Coop's abstracted love for the mannequin. Only a scattering of facile nursery-rhyme type of songs echo hollowly in Millhauser's elegant, penetrating tale.

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