Universal Harvester

Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut. So begins Universal Harvester, the haunting and masterfully unsettling new novel from John Darnielle, author of the New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Nominee Wolf in White Van. A New York Times Bestseller "A moving, beautifully etched picture of AmericaÆs lost and profoundly lonely." ùKazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day and winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature ôBrilliant . . . Darnielle is a master at building suspense, and his writing is propulsive and urgent; itÆs nearly impossible to stop reading . . . [Universal Harvester is] beyond worthwhile; itÆs a major work by an author who is quickly becoming one of the brightest stars in American fiction.ö ùMichael Schaub, Los Angeles Times ôGrows in menace as the pages stack up . . . [But] more sensitive than one would expect from a more traditional tale of dread.ö ùJoe Hill, New York Times Book Review (EditorsÆ Choice) ôThe most unsettling book IÆve read since House of Leaves.ö ùAdam Morgan, Electric Literature ItÆs the late Æ90s, and you can find Jeremy Heldt at the VideoHut in Nevada, Iowaùa small town in the center of the state. The job is good enough for Jeremy, quiet and predictable, and it gets him out of the house, where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom, who died six years ago in a carwreck. But when a local school teacher comes in to return her copy of Targetsùan old movie, starring Boris Karloffùthe transaction jolts Jeremy out of his routine. ôThereÆs something on it,ö she says as she leaves the store, though she doesnÆt elaborate. Two days later, another customer returns another tape, and registers the same odd complaint: ôThereÆs another movie on this tape.ö In Universal Harvester, the once-placid Iowa fields and farmhouses become sinister, imbued with loss and instability and foreboding. As Jeremy and those around him are absorbed into tapes, they become part of another storyùone that unfolds years into the past and years into the future, part of an impossible search for something someone once lost that they would do anything to regain.

• | Author: John Darnielle
• | Publisher: Picador
• | Publication Date: Feb 06, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1250159997
• | ISBN-13: 9781250159991