Finished this one before our trip to San Francisco. I had never heard of Milhauser before, but the blurb on the cover about being by the same author as "Eisenheim the Illusionist" allowed me to talk dad into buying it, he having enjoyed the film The Illusionist so much. The book sat on a shelf for a while until I finally started it after having read the final story from the compilation "The Wizard of West Orange" in Best American Short Stories 2008 and "The Invasion from Outer Space" on The New Yorker website.
So - yes, I loved this book. I want more - I'm so hungry!
Because I am lazy, I'm going to quote and revise the facebook review I wrote about the book:
