House of Holes

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Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. So begins Nicholson Baker’s fuse-blowing sexual escapade—a modern-day Hieronymus Boschian bacchanal set in a pleasure resort where normal rules don’t apply. House of Holes, one of the most talked-about books in recent memory, is a gleefully provocative novel sure to surprise, amuse, and arouse.

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Simon & Schuster |
272 pages |
ISBN 9781439189535 |
August 2011

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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

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