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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews 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, youll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you wont want to leave. Later, youll find that you cant. Every nine years, the houses residentsan odd brother and sisterextend a unique invitation to someone whos 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, its 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 storyas only David Mitchell could imagine it. Praise for Slade HouseA 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 Jacksons Hill House or the Overlook Hotel from Stephen Kings 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 ChronicleLike Stephen King in a fever . . . manically ingenious.The Guardian (U.K.) A haunted 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 Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780812988079
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