On the surface, the plot is simple-an epileptic 12-year-old named Xanther goes to buy a family pet and comes home with a creature we suspect is very dangerous. And Narcons-a fleet of artificially intelligent robots that serve as the book’s “objective” narrative device-butt in with factual asides. There are nine narrators, each with a unique font and color-coded quick-reference tab. Throughout, Danielewski blurs the line between text and image, with full-spread illustrations made up of tiny letters.
The book is a visual feast, and no two pages look alike. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story - of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.There’s a Perfect Number of Days to Work From Home, and It’s 2 Amanda Mullĭanielewski’s latest project is a whopping, 27-volume series called The Familiar, of which the first volume, One Rainy Day in May, comes out Tuesday. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and newly added second and third appendices. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth - musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies - the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.
No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet.
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