House of Leaves: The Remastered, Full-Color Edition

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Danielewski, son of a film director who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival, grew up in Utah, is in his mid-thirties and was educated at Harvard, where he was taught by Harold Bloom. Shadowcaster Christine Marie Will Create 40-Foot Shadows During 'The Fifty Year Sword' This Halloween". issue of "Firsts" magazine,1500 sheets with various signatures were bound into the first printing of 2000 hardcover copies.

A FINE book in VERY GOOD+ jacket with a couple of short tears and roll to upper edges of the jacket, now protected in mylar. Danielewski's descriptions of the explorations of the interior are amazing (think Into Thin Air in a surreal dreamscape). He makes palpable the animal weight of the unknown, terrifying in its formlessness, defined by its ability to morph; he uses perception as a tool to mystify, the building blocks of text to make a structure without walls.A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious. Johnny's obsessive immersion in the manuscript echoes the black-hole threat of the hallway to Navidson; both are caught then consumed by the need to go deeper than safety, or sanity, can support; both will risk their lives in pursuit of the secret of the hallway, and both will be damaged by the experience in ways they cannot anticipate or escape. He is most widely known for his debut novel House of Leaves (2000), which won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. He also composed the song "A Rose Is a Rose," [29] which Poe sang on the Lounge-a-Palooza compilation album.

some others who have posted in various places at this site have disparagingly said that still others regard HoL as a "bible. It is also an innovative and interesting book that can be enjoyed fully on its first reading but like say Gene Wolfe's work it can be reread to fully extract all the potential meanings and puzzles.Danielewski came up with the concept for his second novel, Only Revolutions, while he was touring for House of Leaves and working on The Fifty Year Sword.

Try as he might, though, Truant can find no record that the film ever existed, but the unaccountable fear begins to haunt him too. I'm terribly sorry I made a new thread for this, but I couldn't find anywhere it seemed sensible to post this, and couldn't see it mentioned anywhere else. The novel has gone on to inspire doctorate-level courses and masters theses, cultural phenomena like the online urban legend of the backrooms, and incredible works of art in entirely unrealted mediums from music to video games. Now that I’m a bit more informed about it, the experience, and the kinds of things to expect, is it worth going for the hardback? Danielewski's textured novel is about apprehensions, in all senses of the word: to anticipate with dread, to seize, to understand.

Only Revolutions was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and has been translated into French, Dutch, and German. Tipped in a letter signed by the Publicity Manager of Transworld Publishers (London) enclosing a copy of the American edition to "Claire" presumably for early review prior to the UK edition then scheduled for July 2000. I'm excited, it's on it's way in the mail :] I've never read a book that actually creeped me out or frightened me, so I hope this is it. Danielewski, or someone else involved with the book, has embedded a sound on the actual book itself! THE MIND-BENDING CULT CLASSIC ABOUT A HOUSE THAT'S LARGER ON THE INSIDE THAN ON THE OUTSIDE - A masterpiece of horror and an astonishingly immersive, maze-like reading experience that redefines the boundaries of a novel.