Slade House
Autor David Mitchellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iun 2016
"Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door."
Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you ll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you won t want to leave. Later, you ll find that you can t. 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. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it s already too late. . . .
Spanning five decades, from the last days of the 1970s to the present, leaping genres, and barreling toward an astonishing conclusion, this intricately woven novel will pull you into a reality-warping new vision of the haunted house story as only David Mitchell could imagine it.
Praise for "Slade House"
A fiendish delight . . . Mitchell is something of a magician. "The Washington Post"
Entertainingly eerie . . . We turn to Mitchell] for brain-tickling puzzle palaces, for character studies and for language. "Chicago Tribune"
A ripping yarn . . . Like Shirley Jackson s Hill House or the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King s "The Shining, " Slade House] is a thin sliver of hell designed to entrap the unwary. . . . 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.)
Ahaunted house story that savors of Dickens, Stephen King, J. K. Rowling and H. P. Lovecraft, but possesses more psychic voltage than any of them. "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
Tightly crafted and suspenseful yet warmly human . . .the ultimate spooky nursery tale for adults. "The Huffington Post"
Diabolically entertaining . . . dark, thrilling, and fun . . .a thoroughly entertaining ride full of mind games, unexpected twists, and even a few laughs. "The Daily Beast"
Plants died, milk curdled, and my children went slightly feral as I succumbed to the creepy magic of David Mitchell s"Slade House." It s a wildly inventive, chilling, and for all its otherworldliness wonderfully human haunted house story. I plan to return to its clutches quite often. Gillian Flynn, #1"New York Times"bestselling author of"Gone Girl"and"The Grownup"
I gulped down this novel in a single evening. Painstakingly imagined and crackling with narrative velocity, it s a "Dracula" for the new millennium, a reminder of how much fun fiction can be. Anthony Doerr, author of "All the Light We Cannot See, "winner of the Pulitzer Prize
David Mitchell doesn t break rules so much as he proves them to be inhibitors to lively intelligent fiction. #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Dean Koontz
"From the Hardcover edition.""
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0812988078
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 132 x 201 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Random House Trade
Descriere
Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open.
Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it occupies. A stranger greets you and invites you inside. At first, you won't want to leave.
Later, you'll find that you can't. This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and comes to its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe'en, 2015. Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a 'guest' is summoned to Slade House.
But why has that person been chosen, by whom and for what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top of the stairs . . .