The Dumb House

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Description

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.‘A wonderfully disturbing book – chillingly focused and lyrically amoral with moments of remarkable stillness and beauty.’ 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

Additional information

Weight 0.162 kg
Dimensions 1.4 × 13 × 19.8 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

224

Publisher

Year Published

2015-8-6

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1784870110

Review Quote

Compelling reading

Other text

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