Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. Luna meets a man made of light bulbs at a tanning parlor. So begins Nicholson Baker's fuse-blowing, sex-positive escapade, House of Holes. Baker, the bestselling author of The Mezzanine, Vox, and The Fermata, who 'writes like no one else in America' (Newsweek), returns to erotic territory with a gleefully over-the-top novel set in a pleasure resort, where normal rules don't apply. Visitors, pulled in via their drinking straws or the dryers in laundromats, can undergo crotchal transfers ...make love to trees ...visit the Groanrooms and the twelve-screen Porndecahedron ...or pussy-surf the White Lake. It's very expensive, of course, but there are work-study programs. In charge of day-to-day operations is Lila, a former hospital administrator whose breast milk has unusual regenerative properties.
Los Angles Times Summer 2011 Reading List The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2011 List New York Magazine "Anticipated Summer Book" "Hoo-boy, people, get ready for this book. It is going to be Talked About. There will be fistfights in the hallways of your local public library...It made me hoot out loud every other page or so, and on a few occasions my mouth actually, literally dropped open. Just get ready."-Sam Anderson, NYTimes.com "Even a galley of Nicholson Baker's new novel, 'House of Holes: A Book of Raunch' (due in Aug.), is hot enough to burn your fingers."-Dwight Garner, New York Times critic via Twitter "arguably [Baker's] most inventive [book]."-New York Observer "Baker returns to the eroticism of his earlier Vox and The Fermata but kicks it up about a dozen notches."-Kirkus "[U]nderneath the pornographic veneer of Baker's writing is an engaging commentary on society's distinction between sexual and aesthetic experience...Purposefully explicit and outlandish, Baker playfully critiques the modern, mechanical portrayal of sex with unrestrained erotic experience...this open expression of eroticism [is] refreshing and honest."-Library Journal 'House of Holes' is a ludicrously enjoyable lampoon. It's far too much fun to be read as a moralising satire we've come to expect from British novelists. It is, for many pages, an all-out, over-the-top literary hand job' Time Out 'Nicholson Baker's latest book's sub-heading has it absolutely right. High speed, high visibility and unapologetically and deliriously pornographic' Tim Teeman, The Times 'Nick has brought together his obsessional and pornographic tendencies in his wackiest volume yet' Private Eye 'His new book, House of Holes, is an outrageous, surrealist sex fantasy' Financial Times Magazine 'We're pretty confident that House of Holes by American author Nicholson Baker...is going to be the weirdest erotica you read this month' Esquire Magazine 'Sam Lipsyte in the New York Times welcomed Nicholson Baker's "hilarious and extremely dirty 'book of raunch'" Guardian Review 'The House of Holes is [...] the highly original product of an impish, irreverent imagination; an imagination that takes on the worst of our porno cliches, squeezes out the bad stuff, then pumps them full of innocence and juicy humour until they become ripe, succulent fruits hanging on the tree of sexual honesty. Enormously enjoyable stuff, which reinforces the idea that porn is defined by its lack of imagination and erotica by its abundance thereof; hard to find two better exemplars of this theory than Sun Strokes and House of Holes' Erotic Review
Title: House of Holes
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Nicholson Baker
ISBN 13: 9780857206619
ISBN 10: 0857206613
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Publication Date: 1/03/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification:
813.6
(DC23)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Height: 198mm
Width: 130mm