Heap House - Brossura

Carey, Edward

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1468311182 ISBN 13: 9781468311181

Casa editrice: Overlook Pr, 2015

Riassunto

A 2014 New York Times Notable Book!A Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2014A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Pick!A Publishers Weekly Indie Pick: Big Books from Small Presses!Welcome to Heap House, the sprawling, slipshod maze of a mansion, built on the “Heaps,” a collection of forgotten trash and curios. Young Clod Iremonger and his eccentric family, the “kings of mildew, moguls of mold,” made their fortune from this collected detritus. The Iremongers are an odd old family, each the owner of the birth object they must keep with them at all times. Clod is perhaps the oddest of all—his gift and his curse is that he can hear all of the objects of Heap House whispering. Yes, a storm is brewing over Heap House and the house’s many objects are showing strange signs of life. Clod is on the cusp of being “trousered” and married off (unhappily) to his cousin Pinalippy when he meets the plucky orphan servant Lucy Pennant, with whose help he begins to uncover the dark secrets of his family’s empire. The first installment of the Iremonger Trilogy, Heap House introduces readers to a gloriously imagined dark world whose inhabitants come alive on the page—and in Edward Carey’s fantastical illustrations. Heap House is a book that will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman, Roald Dahl and Mervyn Peake, young and old alike. Mystery, romance, and the perils of the Heaps await!

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A 2014 New York Times Notable Book!
A Kirkus "Best Teen Book of 2014"
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Pick!
A Publishers Weekly Indie Pick: Big Books from Small Presses!
 
“Heap House is weird, yes. Spectacularly so.”
—Pseudonymous Bosch, The New York Times Book Review
 
 
“Heap House—the first in a trilogy set in Victorian England—is a witty, fantastical, sometimes terrifying world, like the best kind of fairy tales. And like many fairy tales, it’s suitable for children as well as adults.”  —Austin American-Statesman
 
"How do I even begin to talk about this exceptional, astonishing book? Reading Heap House I was reminded of Edward Gorey, Lemony Snicket, and Roald Dahl; it's a grimy world with a sepia glow, a Victoriana of malicious clutter. It's an intelligent, thoughtful, compassionate book.  It's also gorgeously written. Heap House is, its heart of trash notwithstanding, an absolute treasure."   —Amal El-Motar, NPR
 
“Whimsically gothic...”  —Los Angeles Times
 
"Carey’s Heap House is blanketed in the delicious gray gloom of his native England ...Apt comparisons will be drawn to Charles Dickens, Lemony Snicket, and Edward Gorey. Fans of creepy and macabre literature will be drawn to Carey’s illustrations, and fans of brave and whimsical literature will love his wordplay and his fantastical world.”   —Bookpeople’s Blog
 
“This book is funny and charming, and even scary, and so full of wonderful words, it's amazing Carey has any left to use. He also did the fabulous illustrations. I adored it.”  —Book Riot
 
"Edward Carey’s new novel Heap House is his first for younger readers; it’s also a magnificently creepy work regardless of what age you are when you encounter it.”  —Vol 1 Brooklyn Blog
 
"Heap House is the first volume in theIremonger Trilogy, and its cliffhanger ending is perfectly maddening. It's cruel, really, of the publisher to release just one.”  —Sonja Bolle, Newsday
 
“Full of strange magic, sly humor, and odd, melancholy characters, this trilogy opener, peppered with portraits illustrated by Carey in a style reminiscent of Peake’s own, should appeal to ambitious readers seeking richly imagined and more-than-a-little-sinister fantasy.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
"The first in a deliciously macabre trilogy . . . channels Dickens crossed with LemonySnicket. . . . a Gothic tale in turns witty, sweet, thoughtful and thrilling—but always off-kilter—and penned with gorgeous, loopy prose. Suspense and horror gradually accumulate into an avalanche of a climax, leading to the most precipitous of cliffhangers... Magnificently creepy.”  —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
 
"What an astonishing book this is! A novel for children so good, so peculiar, somagical that it bears comparison to classics like The Hobbit or The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The Golden Compass or the Green Knowe books. That is to say, adults should read it too, in order to be given the uncanny, wrenching sensation of visiting a new and strange place—and finding a home there."  —Kelly Link, award-winning author of Magic for Beginners
 
“Heap House is delightful, eccentric, heartfelt, surprising, philosophical, everything that an novel for children shouldbe.” —Eleanor Catton, winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries
 
“Heap House torques and tempers our memories of Dickensian London into a singularly jaunty and creepy tale of agreeable misfits.”  —Gregory Maguire, best-selling author of Wicked

L'autore

Edward Carey is the author and illustrator of two novels for adults, Observatory Mansions and Alva and Irva, which was longlisted for the IMPAC Literary Award. The Iremonger Trilogy is his first work for young readers. Born in England, he now lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two children, where he wrote the Iremonger Trilogy because he missed feeling cold and gloomy.

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• Editore: Overlook Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1468311182
• ISBN 13: 9781468311181
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 404