The Familiar, Volume 3
  • Published: 15 June 2016
  • ISBN: 9780375714986
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 880
  • RRP: $62.99

The Familiar, Volume 3

Honeysuckle & Pain

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The exciting and radical literary event continues with Honeysuckle & Pain, the third episode in the multi-volume novel from the universally acclaimed, genre-busting author of House of Leaves.

The Familiar Volume 1 Wherein the cat is found . . . 
The Familiar Volume 2 Wherein the cat is hungry . . .
The Familiar Volume 3 Wherein the cat is blind . . .

Released for the summer from the perils of school, Xanther and her nameless cat are settling into a comfortable routine at home. However, the rest of the Ibrahim family is growing more and more unsettled. Astair fears their stretched finances are already at a breaking point. Not even a visit from an old friend can mitigate Anwar’s feeling that he’s failing to support those he loves and that even worse things are to come. The twins, Freya and Shasti, sense something too and blame their older sister. Honeysuckles haunt the air and smell of offerings . . . Meanwhile, Cas and Bobby’s survival may depend on facing the one person they fear most. And on the other side of the world, Jingjing and Tian Li set out to find what was lost: their missing cat. With spectacular visuals and the vibrant wordplay that are his trademark, The Familiar (Volume 3) is a beautiful and singular reading experience that could come only from the imagination of Mark Z. Danielewski.


THE FAMILIAR  continues

The Familiar Volume 4 Wherein the cat is toothless . . . 
The Familiar Volume 5 Wherein the cat is named . . .
  • Published: 15 June 2016
  • ISBN: 9780375714986
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 880
  • RRP: $62.99
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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.

Also by Mark Z Danielewski

House Of Leaves
The Familiar, Volume 5
The Familiar, Volume 4
The Familiar, Volume 1
The Familiar, Volume 2
The Whalestoe Letters
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Praise for The Familiar, Volume 3

Praise for The Familiar, Volume 1 and Volume 2:

  • "Thrilling and magnetic.... The Familiar: Volume One is a boldly original, gorgeous, and suspenseful work of literature.... Thoroughly encoded with the language of our design-conscious, cinema-saturated, tech-centric era." --Laura Collins-Hughes, The Boston Globe
  • "A revelation, a thrilling, compulsive reading experience.... A tour de force....The next volume--episode--can't come soon enough." --Robert J. Wiersema, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  • "The series at times recalls Ulysses, Infinite Jest, and Cloud Atlas in its complexity, structure, and echoing parallel narratives.... The literary world is stronger for having boundary pushers like Danielewski." --Ryan Vlastelica, The A. V. Club

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