Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures

by Michael Swanwick

Book Overview

Often humorous, sometimes chilling, always entertaining, this collection of award-winning author Michael Swanwick's short-short fiction is a work of masterfully sustained whimsy for adults. Cigar-Box Faust contains more than seventy fantastical stories in fewer than a hundred pages. The title piece is a five-minute condensation of a classic of Western literature, featuring a cigar-cutter as Mephistopheles; a box of matches in the roles of Helen of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892391074
• ISBN13: 9781892391070
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Tachyon Publications
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"