House of Holes - Brossura

Baker, Nicholson

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0857206613 ISBN 13: 9780857206619

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2012

Riassunto

Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. Luna meets a man made of light bulbs at a tanning parlor. So begins Nicholson Baker's fuse-blowing, sex-positive escapade, House of Holes. Baker, the bestselling author of The Mezzanine, Vox, and The Fermata, who 'writes like no one else in America' (Newsweek), returns to erotic territory with a gleefully over-the-top novel set in a pleasure resort, where normal rules don't apply. Visitors, pulled in via their drinking straws or the dryers in laundromats, can undergo crotchal transfers . . . make love to trees . . . visit the Groanrooms and the twelve-screen Porndecahedron . . . or pussy-surf the White Lake. It's very expensive, of course, but there are work-study programs. In charge of day-to-day operations is Lila, a former hospital administrator whose breast milk has unusual regenerative properties. Brimful of good-nature, wit, and surreal sexual vocabulary, House of Holesis a modern-day Hieronymous Boschian bacchanal that is sure to surprise, amuse, and arouse.

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Recensione

'Fantastically dirty ...gleefully surreal ... delightfully absurd' New Statesman
'Hilarious and extemely dirty ... [a] hideously glorios filthfest' Sam Lipsyte, New York Times
'Like many of the great works of erotica, the mood is one of playful, hedonistic innocence. One thing's for sure, you'll never think of Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin the same way again ... Baker has caught a glimpse of the literary immortality that might be achieved by adding to a corpus of literature whose practitioners included Sappho, Swinburne, Cleland, Sacher-Masoch, Apollinaire and Bataille, all of whose work is still in demand, long after their deaths' The Herald

L'autore

Nicholson Baker was born in 1957 and attended the Eastman School of Music and Haverford College. He is the author of several novels, including The Mezzanine, Vox and The Fermata, and House of Holes; and four works of non fiction, U and I, The Size of Thoughts, Double Fold (winner of the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award), and Human Smoke. He lives in Maine.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857206613
• ISBN 13: 9780857206619
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304