Great House - by Nicole Krauss (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in FictionWinner of the 2011 ABA Indies Choice Honor Award in FictionWinner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf AwardShortlisted 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Winner of the 2011 ABA Indies Choice Honor Award in Fiction<br />Winner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award<br />Shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize in Fiction<br /><br />A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>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<br><br>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<br><br>Ambitious, disturbing, brave, provocative.--Joan Frank<br><br>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<br><br>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<br><br>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.<br><br>One of America's most important novelists and an international literary sensation.--Sam Tanenhaus<br><br>Reminds us what it means to be alive.--Rachel Rosenblit<br><br>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<br><br>Sweeps you up...beautiful and mysterious.--Ann Harleman<br><br>[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<br><br>A novel brimming with insights into the human psyche...often haunting and ultimately rewarding.--Monica Rhor<br><br>Exquisite...Krauss is a poetic stylist whose prose gives tremendous weight to her characters' pain and struggles.--Sharon Dilworth<br>
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