Great House: A Novel [Paperback]

One of Americas most important novelists and an international literary sensation. [Krauss] writes of her characters despair with striking lucidity&an eloquent dramatization of the need to find that missing piece that will give life its meaning. Ambitious, disturbing, brave, provocative. Sweeps you up&beautiful and mysterious. Although most of her characters are prisoners of the past, Krauss herself is a fiction pioneer, toying with fresh ways of rendering experience and emotion, giving us readers the thrill of seeing the novel stretched into amorphous new shapes. Reminds us what it means to be alive. A novel brimming with insights into the human psyche&often haunting and ultimately rewarding. Delayed revelation is one of the authors signatures, and in this, her third novel, she manages it with satisfying ?lan&Krausss organic scenes soar, she is stunning. Exquisite&Krauss is a poetic stylist whose prose gives tremendous weight to her characters pain and struggles. Krauss has a unique way of assembling novelsbaroque, complex, and with stunning tidiness that isnt clear until the very last page. All the parts do fit together in the end. The shape they form is the ghastly A complex, richly imagined new novel&Krausss talent runs deep. And she cannot write a bad sentence: pound for pound, the sentences alone deliver epiphany upon epiphany. Krauss masterful rendition of character is breathtaking, compelling.& This tour de force of fiction writing will deeply satisfy fans of the authors first two books and bring her legions more. Stunning&I was captivated by the first chapter and never disappointed thereafter. The richness of invention, the beauty of the prose, the aptness of her central images, the depth of feeling: who would not be moved? Full of cogent insights&an exercise in kaleidoscopic storytelling, a novel that seeks to weave four groups of characters into a larger meditation on memory and loss. US