One of the most original, dazzling, and critically acclaimed debut novels this year.

In this debut novel, hailed by Stephen King as ?terrifying, touching, and wildly funny, ? the stories of two strangers, Eugene Brentani and Mr. Schmitz, interweave. What unfolds is a bold reinvention of storytelling in which Eugene, a devotee of the reclusive and monstrous author, Constance Eakins, and Mr. Schmitz, who has been receiving ominous letters from an old friend, embark from New York for Italy, where the line between imagination and reality begins to blur and stories take on a life of their own.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 04/07/2009
ISBN: 9781594483684
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.90d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 04/26/2009 pg. 24