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  • Published: 15 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9780375714962
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 880
  • RRP: $49.99

The Familiar, Volume 2

Into the Forest



From the universally acclaimed, genre-busting author of House of Leaves comes the second volume of The Familiar, a page-turning novel of brilliant imagination.

The Familiar, Volume 1  Wherein the cat is found . . .
The Familiar, Volume 2  Wherein the cat is hungry . . .
  
From the universally acclaimed, genre-busting author of House of Leaves comes the second volume of The Familiar, a “novel [which] goes beyond the experimental into the visionary, creating a language and style that expands the horizon of meaning . . . hint[ing] at an evolved form of literature.”*
 
In The Familiar, Volume 2: Into the Forest, the lives of the disparate and dynamic nine characters introduced in “One Rainy Day in May” begin to intersect in inexplicable ways, finding harmonies and echoes in each other. What once seemed remote and disconnected draws closer—slowly, steadily—toward something inevitable. . . . At the center of it all is Xanther, a twelve-year-old girl, for whom the world around her seems to be opening, exposing doors and windows, visions and sounds, questions and ideas previously unknown. With each passing day, she begins to glimpse something she does not understand but unequivocally craves—the only thing that will bring her relief and keep her new friend alive.
 
(With full-color illustrations throughout.)
 
*Library Journal, starred review


THE FAMILIAR
 continues... 

The Familiar Volume Wherein the cat is blind . . . 
The Familiar Volume 4 Wherein the cat is toothless . . . 
The Familiar Volume 5 Wherein the cat is named . . . 

  • Published: 15 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9780375714962
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 880
  • RRP: $49.99

About the author

Mark Z Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski, son of a film director who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival, grew up in Utah, is in his mid-thirties and was educated at Harvard, where he was taught by Harold Bloom. He attended the most prestigious film school in America at the University of Southern California and has written a number of screenplays. His sister, Poe, is a cult rock star in the States.

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Praise for The Familiar, Volume 2

Praise for Mark Z. Danielewski

  • "One of the most gifted and versatile writers of our time." --The Washington Post
  • "Danielewski...isn't merely a storyteller. He creates experiences, multidimensional pieces of art that don't conform to one genre, and that beg for physical engagement from the audience." --The A.V. Club