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  • Published: 27 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9780375714979
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 880

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.

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From the author of the international best seller House of Leaves and National Book Award–nominated Only Revolutions comes a monumental new novel as dazzling as it is riveting. The Familiar (Volume 1) ranges from Mexico to Southeast Asia, from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, with nine lives hanging in the balance, each called upon to make a terrifying choice. They include a therapist-in-training grappling with daughters as demanding as her patients; an ambitious East L.A. gang member contracted for violence; two scientists in Marfa, Texas, on the run from an organization powerful beyond imagining; plus a recovering addict in Singapore summoned at midnight by a desperate billionaire; and a programmer near Silicon Beach whose game engine might unleash consequences far exceeding the entertainment he intends. At the very heart, though, is a twelve-year-old girl named Xanther who one rainy day in May sets out with her father to get a dog, only to end up trying to save a creature as fragile as it is dangerous . . . which will change not only her life and the lives of those she has yet to encounter, but this world, too—or at least the world we think we know and the future we take for granted.

(With full-color illustrations throughout.) 

Like the print edition, this eBook contains a complex image-based layout. It is most readable on e-reading devices with larger screen sizes.  

  • Published: 27 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9780375714979
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 880

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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