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The Dumb House
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ISBN-13:
9781784870119
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
06.08.2015
Seiten:
224
Autor:
John Burnside
Gewicht:
166 g
Format:
198x130x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation, John Burnside has just been awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs have won numerous other awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Petrarca Prize and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. His most recent books are The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century and Aurochs and Auks: Essays on Mortality and Extinction. He is a professor in the School of English at St Andrews University.
John Burnside's first novel, his profoundly disturbing and beautifully written story of scientific curiosity gone awry
John Burnside's first novel, his profoundly disturbing and beautifully-written story of scientific curiosity gone awry
As a child, Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language. As Luke grows up, his interest in language and the delicate balance of life and death leads to amateur dissections of small animals - tiny hearts revealed still pumping, as life trickles away. But as an adult, following the death of his mother, Luke's obsession deepens, resulting in a haunting and bizarre experiment on Luke's own children.