Slade House: A Novel

The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, youÆll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you wonÆt want to leave. Later, youÆll find that you canÆt. Every nine years, the houseÆs residentsùan odd brother and sisterùextend a unique invitation to someone whoÆs different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, a shy college student. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, itÆs already too late. . . . Spanning five decades, from the last days of the 1970s to the present, leaping genres, and barreling toward an astonishing conclusion, this intricately woven novel will pull you into a reality-warping new vision of the haunted house storyùas only David Mitchell could imagine it. Praise for Slade House ôA fiendish delight . . . Mitchell is something of a magician.öùThe Washington Post ôEntertainingly eerie . . . We turn to [Mitchell] for brain-tickling puzzle palaces, for character studies and for language.öùChicago Tribune ôA ripping yarn . . . Like Shirley JacksonÆs Hill House or the Overlook Hotel from Stephen KingÆs The Shining, [Slade House] is a thin sliver of hell designed to entrap the unwary. . . . As the Mitchellverse grows ever more expansive and connected, this short but powerful novel hints at still more marvels to come.öùSan Francisco Chronicle ôLike Stephen King in a fever . . . manically ingenious.öùThe Guardian (U.K.) ôA haunted house story that savors of Dickens, Stephen King, J. K. Rowling and H. P. Lovecraft, but possesses more psychic voltage than any of them.öùPittsburgh Post-Gazette ôTightly crafted and suspenseful yet warmly human . . . the ultimate spooky nursery tale for adults.öùThe Huffington Post

• | Author: David Mitchell
• | Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• | Publication Date: Jun 28, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0812988078
• | ISBN-13: 9780812988079