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The Dumb House (Vintage Classics)

The Dumb House (Vintage Classics)

by JohnBurnside (Author)

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    Paperback 2015

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Synopsis

As a child, Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language. As Luke grows up, his interest in language and the delicate balance of life and death leads to amateur dissections of small animals - tiny hearts revealed still pumping, as life trickles away. But as an adult, following the death of his mother, Luke's obsession deepens, resulting in a haunting and bizarre experiment on Luke's own children.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: Reissue
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 06 Aug 2015
ISBN 10: 1784870110
ISBN 13: 9781784870119
Book Overview: John Burnside's first novel, his profoundly disturbing and beautifully written story of scientific curiosity gone awry

Media Reviews
Compelling reading * Scotsman *
A wonderfully disturbing book - chillingly focused and lyrically amoral with moments of remarkable stillness and beauty. A poetic novel in the best and most troubling sense -- A. L. Kennedy
Burnside's prose is exquisite and he dissects his themes with delicacy to produce a novel resonant with poetic menace * Sunday Times *
An exceptionally sinister book... It is the story of Luke, whose experiments into the nature of human language are recounted with all the beguiling reasonableness of the highly intelligent madman... The horror is tempered and fine-tuned by the exceptional beauty of Burnside's writing... In Luke, Burnside has produced one of the most chilling voices in recent fiction * Times Literary Supplement *
My favourite book of the year * Jen Campbell's vlog *
Author Bio
John Burnside is amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs have won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011 he became only the second person to win both the Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes for poetry for the same book, Black Cat Bone. In 2015 he was a judge for the Man Booker Prize. He is a Professor in the School of English at St Andrews University.