What is the book about?

[Desiree]

Someone give some backround of the storyline here ,besides what I here on the radio , which is just that I have to check it out. images/smiles/icon_confused.gif null

[fragileconciousness]

Basically, without giving away anything extremely important, it's the story of this family that moves into a house and discovers that it is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It's told in a variety of ways, from where I'm at in the book, mostly from a younger guy named Johnny Truant, and an old man known only as Zampano. You should really just flip through the book in the store and you'll be amazed by all the strange page structures and such...

[chris_adams]

Actually the fact that you have to check it out is just about all you need to hear. But if you want a description I would suggest picking it up and reading the jacket.

-CA01

[Sintina]

It's about a lot of things:

Life, love, fear, hope, aniexty, death, brotherhood, family, weirdo-X-Files type house with extra spooky closet, guns, blood, drugs, sex, tattoos, a blind guy, asylums, women in Hollywood, echoes, the history of America's first settlement in VA, the kitchen sink, you name it, the House has it somewhere...

[Cole]

It is impossible to define the background of the storyline due to one fact: That is what the book is - and it cannot be defined. If you're a fan of odd literature that contains multiple layers and plots, each with their own twisted mannerisms - you should get the book!
-Cole

[mieke]

The book to me materializes Lacan's Real (the unknown, 'the splinter in your mind', the dark, the irrational, the alienating)- the Real is opposed to the symbolic (language, structure, definition). Artists, the people who suffer the most from the ever present Real, try to shape it. Films about this: Tarkovsky's 'Solaris' (where people from the past materialize in an irrational way and haunt), also Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' where a bunker contains a room where desires (are supposed to) become true. The labyrinth is a mental space, one that is not limited to just one person's mind.