| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780375703768 | | Publisher: Pantheon Books | | Publish Date: 3/1/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 30547947 | | Item#: RDJK4M | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 155598 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.25H x 7L x 1.25T | | Pages: 720 |
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| | | | "I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often that I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares..." (from the first line) A blind old man, a young apprentice working in a tattoo shop, and a mad woman haunting an Ohio institute narrate this story of a family that encounters an endlessly shifting series of hallways in their new home, eventually coming face to face with the awful darkness lying at its heart.
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A man buys a house for his girlfriend and her two children. When a new door appears in a wall, they find a space that appears to be infinite, even though the outside form of the house remains the same. In five expeditions, the characters explore this vast space, and each try is documented in a different kind of narrative, each in its own typeface. Constructed of these self-referential texts, this metafiction examines the effects of a possibly haunted house on a group of people, each one more peripherally involved with it than the last. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000 and nominated for the 2000 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.
| PraiseNew York Times Book Review
"[A] vast exploration and meditation on the paradoxical spaces that open out from--or as--our awareness. To make sure the word 'meditation' doesn't daunt you into a coma of respectful abstention, let me say right off that his book is funny, moving, sexy, beautifully told, an elaborate arrangement with the shape and meaning of narrative. For all its modernist maneuvers, postmodernist airs and post-post-modernist critical parodies, HOUSE OF LEAVES is, when you get down to it, an adventure story...." - Robert Kelly 03/28/2000Entertainment Weekly
"HOUSE OF LEAVES is dizzying in every respect." - Troy Patterson 04/21/2000 Book
"[T]he most ambitious and original first novel I've read since Pynchon's V.... The literary influences on HOUSE OF LEAVES are many and obvious, but Danielewski's design is ingenious, his mind rigorous, and his purpose admirable....Some few novels we do not judge. They judge us and the courage of our consciousness." - Tom Leclair March/April 2000 Times Literary Supplement
"[W]hile HOUSE OF LEAVES might not be the most elegantly compressed exercise..., it is an impressive first novel--and one with a refreshingly old-fashioned desire to Make It New." - Chris Tayler 07/28/2000 |
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