
Great House
Nicole Krauss
(Author)21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Winner of the 2011 ABA Indies Choice Honor Award in Fiction
Winner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award
Shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize in Fiction
A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through.
Winner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award
Shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize in Fiction
A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through.
Product Details
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Publish Date | September 06, 2011 |
Pages | 304 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780393340648 |
Dimensions | 8.1 X 5.4 X 0.8 inches | 0.6 pounds |
About the Author
Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of America's most important novelists." She is the author of Man Walks Into a Room, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year; The History of Love, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Saroyan Prize for International Literature; Great House, a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award; Forest Dark; and most recently, To Be a Man: Stories. In 2007 she was selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, and in 2010 she was chosen for the New Yorker's 'Twenty Under Forty' list. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and her books have been translated into more than thirty-seven languages. Nicole Krauss lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Reviews
A complex, richly imagined new novel...Krauss's talent runs deep. And she cannot write a bad sentence: pound for pound, the sentences alone deliver epiphany upon epiphany.--Janet Byrne
Although most of her characters are prisoners of the past, Krauss herself is a fiction pioneer, toying with fresh ways of rendering experience and emotion, giving us readers the thrill of seeing the novel stretched into amorphous new shapes.--Maureen Corrigan
Ambitious, disturbing, brave, provocative.--Joan Frank
Delayed revelation is one of the author's signatures, and in this, her third novel, she manages it with satisfying élan...Krauss's organic scenes soar, she is stunning.--Karen R. Long
Full of cogent insights...an exercise in kaleidoscopic storytelling, a novel that seeks to weave four groups of characters into a larger meditation on memory and loss.--David L. Ulin
Krauss' masterful rendition of character is breathtaking, compelling.... This tour de force of fiction writing will deeply satisfy fans of the author's first two books and bring her legions more.
One of America's most important novelists and an international literary sensation.--Sam Tanenhaus
Reminds us what it means to be alive.--Rachel Rosenblit
Stunning...I was captivated by the first chapter and never disappointed thereafter. The richness of invention, the beauty of the prose, the aptness of her central images, the depth of feeling: who would not be moved?--Andrea Barrett
Sweeps you up...beautiful and mysterious.--Ann Harleman
[Krauss] writes of her characters' despair with striking lucidity...an eloquent dramatization of the need to find that missing piece that will give life its meaning.--Sam Sacks
A novel brimming with insights into the human psyche...often haunting and ultimately rewarding.--Monica Rhor
Exquisite...Krauss is a poetic stylist whose prose gives tremendous weight to her characters' pain and struggles.--Sharon Dilworth
Although most of her characters are prisoners of the past, Krauss herself is a fiction pioneer, toying with fresh ways of rendering experience and emotion, giving us readers the thrill of seeing the novel stretched into amorphous new shapes.--Maureen Corrigan
Ambitious, disturbing, brave, provocative.--Joan Frank
Delayed revelation is one of the author's signatures, and in this, her third novel, she manages it with satisfying élan...Krauss's organic scenes soar, she is stunning.--Karen R. Long
Full of cogent insights...an exercise in kaleidoscopic storytelling, a novel that seeks to weave four groups of characters into a larger meditation on memory and loss.--David L. Ulin
Krauss' masterful rendition of character is breathtaking, compelling.... This tour de force of fiction writing will deeply satisfy fans of the author's first two books and bring her legions more.
One of America's most important novelists and an international literary sensation.--Sam Tanenhaus
Reminds us what it means to be alive.--Rachel Rosenblit
Stunning...I was captivated by the first chapter and never disappointed thereafter. The richness of invention, the beauty of the prose, the aptness of her central images, the depth of feeling: who would not be moved?--Andrea Barrett
Sweeps you up...beautiful and mysterious.--Ann Harleman
[Krauss] writes of her characters' despair with striking lucidity...an eloquent dramatization of the need to find that missing piece that will give life its meaning.--Sam Sacks
A novel brimming with insights into the human psyche...often haunting and ultimately rewarding.--Monica Rhor
Exquisite...Krauss is a poetic stylist whose prose gives tremendous weight to her characters' pain and struggles.--Sharon Dilworth
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