He's a stylist, a seemingly effortless imaginer of weirded-up nonsense and navigator extraordinaire of the multiple POV school of plots and schemery. This is Slade House, the newest novel from David Mitchell - who wrote the beautifully twisty Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. "What I see is the wackometer needle climbing," she thinks, as her subject drones on about creepy twins, "psychic vampires" and then - wait a minute - did she just drink that tonic water in front of her? Didn't the last person to go missing around here drink something first, too? Or maybe not cheesy, exactly, but certainly derivative, troped-out and, somehow, comfortingly familiar. Has promised that she will listen, and she's trying her best. How?Īt a table at a skuzzy pub just up the street from the haunted house, a journalist sits, listening to her source ramble on and on about mysterious disappearances, ancient secrets, strange conspiracies and immortality. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Slade House Author David Mitchell
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