Our Mother's House
$52.61
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
16 February 2027
Summary
Seven siblings try to keep their mother’s death a secret in this haunting gothic novel reminiscent of The Lord of the Flies and the works of Shirley Jackson.
Unforgettable, darkly whimsical, and mysterious, this “extraordinary book” is an offbeat classic of English literature.
“Mother died at five fifty-eight.” So begins this story of seven extraordinary children who, faced with the unknown terrors of being sent to the orphanage, decide not to report their mother’s de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798896231271 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Julian Gloag, Oliver Gloag |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 16 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 203mm |
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Julian Gloag
Julian Gloag (1930-2023) was born in London. After graduating from Cambridge, he spent several years in New York working as an editor before moving to France. He became a full-time writer in 1966 after the success of A Sentence of Life, and was elected to the Royal Society of Literature in 1970.
Oliver Gloag is a writer affiliated with Duke’s Institute for Critical Theory. He has a J.D. from Tulane University and a Ph.D in romance studies from Duke. He is the author of Albert Camus: A Very Short Introduction, and Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth. He lives in Brooklyn.
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