SLADE HOUSE by David Mitchell - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKAn eclectic mix of the modern and the gothic gives birth to this devilish Halloween fairy tale for adults.
From the three time Booker Prize shortlisted author of Cloud Atlas and Bone Clocks!
Mind-bending, with echoes of
Neil Gaiman's Coraline, but darker in tone, Slade House manages to keep an
original touch. And just when you think the stories have started to become
redundant, David Mitchell comes up with a background on the Grayer Twins that
will give you goosebumps. Slade House's cliffhanger ending is both evil and
deeply satisfying. An eclectic mix of
the modern and the gothic gives birth to this devilish Halloween fairy tale for
adults.
British novelist David Mitchell has
published only half a dozen novels, three of which were shortlisted for
England's prestigious Booker Prize. For his latest opus, he takes no credit.
Slade House, he told journalists, began as a 280-tweet story that rapidly
escalated into something quite larger. In the words of the author, "scenes
grew, bred and sprouted new scenes until it passed the 6,000-work mark and
announced itself as part one of a five-part novel." And here it is,
already hailed by early readers, such as Lemony Snicket author David Handler
who called it, "Sharp, fast, flat-out spooky. Slade House is such a
hypnotic read that you are likely to miss your subway stop in order to keep
reading.