Slade House: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (538 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812988078 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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As the Mitchellverse grows ever more expansive and connected, this short but powerful novel hints at still more marvels to come.”—San Francisco Chronicle“Like Stephen King in a fever manically ingenious.”—The Guardian (U.K.) “A haunted house story that savors of Dickens, Stephen King, J. At first, you won’t want to leave. It’s a wildly inventive, chilling, and—for all its otherworldliness—wonderfully human haunted house story. Every nine years, the house’s residents—an odd brother and sister—extend a unique invitation to someone who’s different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, a shy college student. The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud
With KA Yoshida, Mitchell translated from the Japanese the internationally bestselling memoir The Reason I Jump. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2007. David Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling author of Slade House,
"Enjoyable, but somewhat derivative of his earlier works." according to Amazon Customer. A fun book that nonetheless feels a bit like a step back from previous works of his. The themes and "lore" are largely a retread of both the Bone Clocks and his libretto for the opera "Sunken Garden", and the appearance of a character from those works, while enjoyable, makes the climax of the novel inevitable. Rather than feeling additive, Mitchell's by now de riguer narrative splits simply chop up the text without enhanci. A summer read Kell First I read " Boneclocks" and then I read this book. I have reviewed the former elsewhere. First off-do not believe the cover blurbs-this book has no similarity with Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw". That particular novella was a masterpiece of subtle innuendo and psychological intensity. One can and should retread it every so many years to reassess its meanings as one ages and gains experience. But this book is a sim. Mitchell's Mastery of Writing Shines again This story line of this one is not as dense as his other reading, but it is not disappointing. The hardback is worth the money because it offers such a tactile experience. The story is odd [as they all are] and immediately pulls you in. Even the characters I did not like were still compelling and necessary to the plot. It has Mitchell's trademark inclusion of a connection to other books for loyal fans, and his intelligent,
K. It’s a wildly inventive, chilling, and—for all its otherworldliness—wonderfully human haunted house story. Yet that doesn’t quite do justice to its white-hot intensity: I think that five minutes inside Slade House would leave Freddy Krueger trembling and crying for Mama. Rowling and H. That you’d see through all this B-movie schlock (like creepy portraits, sad ghosts and stairways that go nowhere), find the secret door, and escape. Ingenious, scary, and downright