Breed: A Novel
Autor Chase Novak Peter Ganimen Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 3 sep 2012
Critically
celebrated
novelist
Scott
Spencer
delivers
a
Rosemary's
Baby-like
novel
of
gothic
horror,
set
against
the
backdrop
of
modern-day
Upper
East
Side
Manhattan.
Ten years later, cosseted and adored but living in a house of secrets, the twins Adam and Alice find themselves locked into their rooms every night, with sounds coming from their parents' bedroom getting progressively louder, more violent, and more disturbing.
Driven to a desperate search for answers, Adam and Alice set out on a quest to learn the true nature of the man and woman who raised them. Their discovery will upend everything they thought they knew about their parents and will reveal a threat so horrible that it must be escaped, at any cost.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781619691926
ISBN-10: 1619691922
Dimensiuni: 133 x 146 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: HACHETTE AUDIO
Colecția Mulholland Books
ISBN-10: 1619691922
Dimensiuni: 133 x 146 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: HACHETTE AUDIO
Colecția Mulholland Books
Notă biografică
Chase
Novak
is
the
pseudonym
for
Scott
Spencer.
Spencer
is
the
author
of
ten
novels,
includingEndless
Love,
which
has
sold
over
two
million
copies
to
date,and
the
National
Book
Award
finalistA
Ship
Made
of
Paper.
He
has
written
forRolling
Stone,
theNew
York
Times,The
New
Yorker,GQ,
andHarper's.BREED
is
his
debut
novel
as
Chase
Novak.
Recenzii
"Forget
vampires,
zombies
and
guys
clad
in
hockey
masks
brandishing
oversized
machetes.
Chase
Novak
unleashes
truly
scary
literary
horror
villains
in
BREED:
Mom
and
Dad.
Novak...explores
what
happens
when
one's
parents
aren't
quite
the
protectors
they
should
be
in
this
excellent
horror
novel.
He
probes
emotionally
deep
and
heartbreaking
themes
of
family
and
friendship
that
seem
fresh
in
a
book
that's
a
bit
like
a
mad-scientist
movie-or
Frankenstein
if
the
monster
decided
he
needed
some
kiddos
in
his
life....
The
kids
escape
their
domestic
prison,
which
shifts
gears
in
BREED
from
a
psychological
tale
to
a
high-stakes
adventure
where
your
fingers
can't
flip
the
pages
fast
enough....
BREED
doesn't
need
love
triangles,
twist
endings
or
aspects
of
a
gore
fest
to
keep
an
audience
enraptured.
Instead,
it's
the
simple
conceit-how
do
you
love
parents
who
do
more
harm
than
good?-and
a
moving
ending
that
make
Novak's
horror
novel
a
thrill
to
read."—Brian
Truitt,
USA
Today
"Advanced reproductive technologies prove just a new form of mad science in this timely, engrossing medical thriller.... Novak writes with an energy that propels the reader through the novel's unlikely science and subplots. He also winks enough to suggest that this all could be a black comedy on modern parenting."—Publishers Weekly
"Although the phrase 'I couldn't put it down' is used promiscuously in book blurbs (and reviews) it isn't often that I am so caught up in a novel that I have to finish it before thinking about doing anything else. Of course, the pacing and length of a book plays a big role in this phenomenon-once I raced through the first 100 pages of BREED in record time, finishing off another 210 pages was a realistic goal before turning in for the night.... The grabber...is in the set-ups that convince us we are in the 'real world' rather than some phony B-horror movie netherworld. We believe in the people we meet and the place where they live, so when ghastly things start happening, wehaveto know how the story will play out.... But the increasingly macabre and truly horrifying developments kept me in a vise-like grip.... BREED substitutes science for the religious mythology ofRosemary's Babyso it is, in some ways, more believable than the Ira Levin classic. Maybetoobelievable."—Joe Meyers, Connecticut Post
"BREED is a daring, ultra-modern novel dealing with bleeding edge science and contemporary concerns. It's dark fiction, but not as we know it. An antidote to the anodyne paranormal romances, vampire horrors, and gory splatterfests littering the book charts, this is a truly original work. While transcending the modern, it also deals with universal themes populating literature since we first started telling stories around campfires. Ultimately, this is a novel about the dangers of science-bogus science in particular. It's a story of the Promethean folly of human beings. Written in urgent, vital prose that quickens the blood, itconfronts.BREED is an intelligent, dark thriller dense with paranoia, yielding creative anxiety, a genetically modified rollercoaster."—A.J. Kirby,New York Journal of Books
"...A delightfully nauseating read.... Chase Novak has hit upon the perfect blend of terrifying real-life topics.... [and] repurposed his literary flair for observation into grisly narrative schadenfreude.... There is a clever fable about class here, as the Twisdens' tumble down the evolutionary tree mirrors their fall down the economic ladder.... And it's the perfect dark fairy tale for these times, when more than a few readers might secretly find themselves wishing that the world's elites would be brought so low as to start pooping in their own posh living rooms."—Annalee Newitz,NPR.org
"...A slice of shivering dread that won't allow you to look at in vitro fertilization, children running loose in Central Park or parents who find their children 'delicious' in the same way again."—Ken Salikof, The New York Daily News
"Smart and brutal, this joins the ranks of such elegant domestic shockers as Lionel Shriver'sWe Need to Talk about Kevin, John Ajvide Lindqvist'sLet Me In, and Justin Evans'A Good and Happy Child."—Booklist
"...A foray into urbane horror, chicly ghoulish, with a malevolent emphasis on family values.... BREED exploits the contrast between civilized and feral behavior. The grand furnishings of the Twisden homestead wind up clawed, chewed and torn as Alex and Leslie's conditions worsen; the cellar goes allSilence of the Lambs. And in a really fine set piece Mr. Spencer stages a long chase through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the relics of primitive times and the veneer of privilege always coexist.... If Mr. Spencer's name were not openly attached to BREED, it would still read like the work of a serious writer with keen antennas for sensory detail.... Above and beyond its fatality count BREED has originality on its side; the ending is a true shocker. The book sets out to convey what it is like to be 'subject to the whip and rattle of unspeakable temptations.' And it does."—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"...Will remind horror connoisseurs ofRosemary's Baby, another Big Apple tale of parenthood gone horribly awry. What Spencer shares most with Ira Levin is a darkly droll sense of humor... [BREED] matches the earlier book's propulsive narrative and satirical edge."—The San Francisco Chronicle
"...Like a literary, contemporary version ofRosemary's Baby-a well-to-do Manhattan couple has everything they could possibly want, only they desperately want children. After trying everything treatment they can, they resort to a highly unusual procedure that's successful in that they conceive twins. But there are also some seriously nasty side-effects that lead to a creepy, bloody, hairy thrill ride."—Stephan Lee, Entertainment Weekly
"A cautionary tale about the perils of fertility treatments turns into a gore fest for the strong of stomach.... There may well be a massive popular readership for this gruesome tale..."—Kirkus Reviews
"Disturbing and funny and very visual..."—Robin Abrahams, Boston.com's "Miss Conduct Reads" blog
"The best horror novel I've read since Peter Straub'sGhost Story. By turns terrifying and blackly funny, BREED is a total blast."—Stephen King
"An honest-to-goodness page-turner."—Bookpage
"A page-turner, classic yet original, filled with detail both subtle and unforgettable, unnerving in its mad logic and genuinely frightening."—Richard Price, author of Lush Life and Clockers
"The definition of a literary horror novel."—Russ Marshalek, Flavorwire
"The most elegantly skin-crawling, gut-churning novel I've read in years."—Warren Ellis, author ofCrooked Little VeinandTransmetropolitan
"Diabolically entertaining.... Along with suspense and shocks, Novak delivers enough humor to make the mayhem palatable...with triumphant effect. The best American horror novel since Scott Smith'sThe Ruins, BREED is redolent of Roadl Dahl at his creepy best."—Dennis Drabelle,The Washington Post
"There are passages during which BREED is really visceral."—Sam Thielman, Newsday
"For all its Gothic horror pedigree, BREED is ultimately a smart commentary on modern parenting."—David Abrams forSalon
"Advanced reproductive technologies prove just a new form of mad science in this timely, engrossing medical thriller.... Novak writes with an energy that propels the reader through the novel's unlikely science and subplots. He also winks enough to suggest that this all could be a black comedy on modern parenting."—Publishers Weekly
"Although the phrase 'I couldn't put it down' is used promiscuously in book blurbs (and reviews) it isn't often that I am so caught up in a novel that I have to finish it before thinking about doing anything else. Of course, the pacing and length of a book plays a big role in this phenomenon-once I raced through the first 100 pages of BREED in record time, finishing off another 210 pages was a realistic goal before turning in for the night.... The grabber...is in the set-ups that convince us we are in the 'real world' rather than some phony B-horror movie netherworld. We believe in the people we meet and the place where they live, so when ghastly things start happening, wehaveto know how the story will play out.... But the increasingly macabre and truly horrifying developments kept me in a vise-like grip.... BREED substitutes science for the religious mythology ofRosemary's Babyso it is, in some ways, more believable than the Ira Levin classic. Maybetoobelievable."—Joe Meyers, Connecticut Post
"BREED is a daring, ultra-modern novel dealing with bleeding edge science and contemporary concerns. It's dark fiction, but not as we know it. An antidote to the anodyne paranormal romances, vampire horrors, and gory splatterfests littering the book charts, this is a truly original work. While transcending the modern, it also deals with universal themes populating literature since we first started telling stories around campfires. Ultimately, this is a novel about the dangers of science-bogus science in particular. It's a story of the Promethean folly of human beings. Written in urgent, vital prose that quickens the blood, itconfronts.BREED is an intelligent, dark thriller dense with paranoia, yielding creative anxiety, a genetically modified rollercoaster."—A.J. Kirby,New York Journal of Books
"...A delightfully nauseating read.... Chase Novak has hit upon the perfect blend of terrifying real-life topics.... [and] repurposed his literary flair for observation into grisly narrative schadenfreude.... There is a clever fable about class here, as the Twisdens' tumble down the evolutionary tree mirrors their fall down the economic ladder.... And it's the perfect dark fairy tale for these times, when more than a few readers might secretly find themselves wishing that the world's elites would be brought so low as to start pooping in their own posh living rooms."—Annalee Newitz,NPR.org
"...A slice of shivering dread that won't allow you to look at in vitro fertilization, children running loose in Central Park or parents who find their children 'delicious' in the same way again."—Ken Salikof, The New York Daily News
"Smart and brutal, this joins the ranks of such elegant domestic shockers as Lionel Shriver'sWe Need to Talk about Kevin, John Ajvide Lindqvist'sLet Me In, and Justin Evans'A Good and Happy Child."—Booklist
"...A foray into urbane horror, chicly ghoulish, with a malevolent emphasis on family values.... BREED exploits the contrast between civilized and feral behavior. The grand furnishings of the Twisden homestead wind up clawed, chewed and torn as Alex and Leslie's conditions worsen; the cellar goes allSilence of the Lambs. And in a really fine set piece Mr. Spencer stages a long chase through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the relics of primitive times and the veneer of privilege always coexist.... If Mr. Spencer's name were not openly attached to BREED, it would still read like the work of a serious writer with keen antennas for sensory detail.... Above and beyond its fatality count BREED has originality on its side; the ending is a true shocker. The book sets out to convey what it is like to be 'subject to the whip and rattle of unspeakable temptations.' And it does."—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"...Will remind horror connoisseurs ofRosemary's Baby, another Big Apple tale of parenthood gone horribly awry. What Spencer shares most with Ira Levin is a darkly droll sense of humor... [BREED] matches the earlier book's propulsive narrative and satirical edge."—The San Francisco Chronicle
"...Like a literary, contemporary version ofRosemary's Baby-a well-to-do Manhattan couple has everything they could possibly want, only they desperately want children. After trying everything treatment they can, they resort to a highly unusual procedure that's successful in that they conceive twins. But there are also some seriously nasty side-effects that lead to a creepy, bloody, hairy thrill ride."—Stephan Lee, Entertainment Weekly
"A cautionary tale about the perils of fertility treatments turns into a gore fest for the strong of stomach.... There may well be a massive popular readership for this gruesome tale..."—Kirkus Reviews
"Disturbing and funny and very visual..."—Robin Abrahams, Boston.com's "Miss Conduct Reads" blog
"The best horror novel I've read since Peter Straub'sGhost Story. By turns terrifying and blackly funny, BREED is a total blast."—Stephen King
"An honest-to-goodness page-turner."—Bookpage
"A page-turner, classic yet original, filled with detail both subtle and unforgettable, unnerving in its mad logic and genuinely frightening."—Richard Price, author of Lush Life and Clockers
"The definition of a literary horror novel."—Russ Marshalek, Flavorwire
"The most elegantly skin-crawling, gut-churning novel I've read in years."—Warren Ellis, author ofCrooked Little VeinandTransmetropolitan
"Diabolically entertaining.... Along with suspense and shocks, Novak delivers enough humor to make the mayhem palatable...with triumphant effect. The best American horror novel since Scott Smith'sThe Ruins, BREED is redolent of Roadl Dahl at his creepy best."—Dennis Drabelle,The Washington Post
"There are passages during which BREED is really visceral."—Sam Thielman, Newsday
"For all its Gothic horror pedigree, BREED is ultimately a smart commentary on modern parenting."—David Abrams forSalon