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Simon & Schuster, August 2011
Hardcover, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 143918951X
ISBN-13: 9781439189511
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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.
Brimful of good-nature, wit, and surreal sexual vocabulary, House of Holes is a modern-day Hieronymous Boschian bacchanal that is sure to surprise, amuse, and arouse.
Brimful of good-nature, wit, and surreal sexual vocabulary, House of Holes is a modern-day Hieronymous Boschian bacchanal that is sure to surprise, amuse, and arouse.
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“Truly uproarious . . . Baker is one of the most consistently enticing writers of our time.”
-- Sam Lipsyte, front cover of The New York Times Book Review
“Wild and hallucinatory . . . Full of fearlessness, cheerfulness, wit, and brio.”
-- Meg Wolitzer, The Washington Post
“House of Holes is as funny as it is filthy. . . . When he is not writing about sex (and also when he is), Baker is one of the most beautiful, original, ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades.”
-- Charles McGrath, The New York Times Magazine
“A sexy, disturbing, funny book: It may also challenge the usual reader of literary novels with its sheer dazzling excess of imagination.”
-- Kate Roiphe, Slate
“Awe-inducing . . . A joyful, almost Chaucerian book . . . Had Dr. Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book like this.”
-- Tom Bissell, GQ
“A funny, frisky novel that brings sexy back in a way that Justin Timberlake never dreamed . . . Reminds us that books can be fun and sexy, that literature can have just as much raw energy and liberating chaos as a good f*ck.”
-- Mark Haskell Smith, Los Angeles Review of Books
“Brilliant, absurd, puerile, depraved, and completely enthralling.”
-- Steve Almond, The Boston Globe
“A world of universal arousal is common enough in pornography, but Baker has fully realized its comic possibilities . . . [He] can conjure fantastical sexual scenarios and unspool yards of charmingly filthy dialogue.”
-- Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books
“Amazing and indispensable.”
-- Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News
"Amazing and indispensable."
-- Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News
Galveston County Daily News, February 12, 2012
...“House of Holes: A Book of Raunch,” by Nicholson Baker, Simon & Schuster, 262 pages, $25. Nicholson Baker is a distinguished man of letters, and I guess it takes a ...
MetroTimes.com, February 8, 2012
...Baker's sexcapade is raucous, raunchy ... and somehow quaint House of Holes Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster, $25 hardcover, $15 paperback (released this week), 352 pp. We are awash in raunch, or at least it sometimes seems like it ...
New York Times, August 13, 2011
...In this Sunday’s Book Review, Sam Lipsyte reviews Nicholson Baker’s latest book, “House of Holes,” a “hideously glorious filthfest” that leads readers into a bizarre sexual fantasyland. Mr. Lipsyte writes: If this sounds like a ...
Tacoma News Tribune, August 10, 2011
..."House of Holes: A Book of Raunch" by Nicholson Baker; Simon & Schuster (262 pages, $25) Related Links • http://www.latimes.com/ FACEBOOK ACTIVITY "House of Holes: A Book of ...
Kenya Star, August 7, 2011
...Is Another's Squoosh Squoosh Kenya Star (Source: International Herald Tribune) Here is a highly abbreviated chapter from Nicholson Baker's full-throttle pornographic new novel, "House of Holes": "We're professionals. I know it may seem a ...
AllVoices, August 7, 2011
...Here is a highly abbreviated chapter from Nicholson Baker's full-throttle pornographic new novel, House of Holes: Elias Baker Nicholson Baker We're professionals. I know it may seem a little strange to you that we don't ...
AskMen Canada, August 6, 2011
...Click here for a sneak peek of House of Holes. Rhubarb. Pollock. Hellhound. Malcolm Gladwell.These are just four of countless synonyms for “penis” in Nicholson Baker’s scandalous, new, semi-pornographic novel, House of Holes , which ...
New York Observer, August 4, 2011
...excellent profile of the writer in New York Times Magazine . You wouldn’t believe such shyness from reading House of Holes , the author’s new book that will be released this month. McGrath writes: Baker is very funny but also a little ...
New York Times, August 4, 2011
...Baker in his barn, which sometimes serves as a writing space. Nicholson Baker does not look like a dirty-book writer. His color is good. His gaze is direct, with none of the sidelong furtiveness of the compulsive masturbator. He wears round, ...
Prospect, July 21, 2011
...House of Holes By Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster, £14.99) “She went to a quarry with her Geology 101 class…It was vast and they dug granite there, mostly for tombstones…She ...
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