Mark Z. Danielewski made a huge stir with his observational novel House of Leaves , but now he ’s aiming even bigger — with a 27 - mass exemplify book serial that aims to be like a boob tube show . We ’ve got an sole first look at a few pages of this serial publication ’ beautiful artistic creation and design .
The Familiarwill be publish at the rate of one volume every three months , to make it easier to keep mainline the installments . And it ’s an fabulously lavish serial publication , featuring dozens of weird illustrations and layout . We ’ve see the first bulk , and it ’s somewhere between a graphic novel , a Good Book of data-based poesy , and a novel .
Here ’s the prescribed abstract of The Familiar , from the publisher , Pantheon :
A 12 - twelvemonth - sure-enough daughter set out to get a dog , but alternatively incur a different form of creature — one that will not only castrate her life but threaten the man we all think we bed and the future we all take for yield . …
Mark says of his novel : “ If House of Leaves take on the movie , Only Revolutions music , and The Fifty Year Sword the campfire write up , then The Familiar will show how the novel can stalk , take down and down the television series . ”
The intimate : One Rainy Day in May ( onsale 5/12/15 ) is the pilot to a 27 - bulk story taking us from Los Angeles to Mexico , from Singapore to Texas . It features a panoptic range of characters including a therapist - in - preparation whose daughters prove far more complex than her patient , a pack member hired to defeat , two scientists on the run in Marfa , a recovering freak in Singapore , a software engineer near Silicon Beach . At the very affection of the tale is a 12 - twelvemonth - old girl who one showery day sets out from Echo Park to get a frump only to find a dissimilar kind of fauna , one which will not only alter her liveliness but threaten the universe we all think we fuck and the future we take for granted .
determine out two more pages fromThe intimate Volume 1below . you’re able to also pre - order it atPowell’s , BNandBooks Inc.
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