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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
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INTO THE DARK HOUSE
this handbook for visionary writers' could be the most mischievous, moving and subversive how-to manual' you've ever read
The acclaimed Iremonger trilogy HEAP HOUSE, FOULSHAM and LUNGDON is already sold in thirteen countries. Edward has just been on an amazing tour of Italy for the publication of LUNGDON, with appearances in Turin, Milan and Florence, including an exhibition of his illustrations for the series (a similar exhibition was held last year in Milan, to a full-house). He has also had fantastic audiences at his appearances at the Auckland Festival, where he was interviewed by Eleanor Catton (who as the above quote shows is a great fan of his work). In Italy he was awarded the prestigious Premio Fernanda Pivano, previously won by Michael Cunningham, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Chabon, Paul Harding and Rick Moody, among others.
Edward has also just completed a manuscript commissioned by Elisabetta Sgarbi for her short literary non-fiction series at her new house La Nave di Teseo (where writers like Michael Cunningham and the late Umberto Eco followed her from Bompiani). With the working title of INTO THE DARK HOUSE, this is Edward's illustrated handbook for visionary writers'. Of course with Edward nothing is as it seems and readers will find themselves stimulated and challenged by a compelling blend of the real and the imaginary, fact and fiction, with these categories constantly being blurred and undermined. Autobiography-by-stealth, and a great complement to his fiction, revelatory and concealing in equal measure, INTO THE DARK HOUSE could be the most mischievous, moving and subversive how-to manual' you've ever read.
More Praise for Edward Carey:
If this were music, Carey would be Eric Satie. If it were film, he would be Tim Burton.' Newsday
Carey, at every step, raises the stakes; he isn't interested in just portraying eccentric characters in an eccentric setting. He wants nothing less than Mastery of technique, of characterization, of setting, of memory, of resonance.' Jeff Vandermeer
Edward Carey is an enormously talented writer ' Publishers Weekly
Carey writes with such persuasive authority, and we are inclined to believe him . The emphasis on detail in Carey's sweetly detached, exact prose has forebears in the illuminated dreams of Borges and Calvino and Georges Perec.' Carey Harrison, The New York Times Review of Books
Edward has also just completed a manuscript commissioned by Elisabetta Sgarbi for her short literary non-fiction series at her new house La Nave di Teseo (where writers like Michael Cunningham and the late Umberto Eco followed her from Bompiani). With the working title of INTO THE DARK HOUSE, this is Edward's illustrated handbook for visionary writers'. Of course with Edward nothing is as it seems and readers will find themselves stimulated and challenged by a compelling blend of the real and the imaginary, fact and fiction, with these categories constantly being blurred and undermined. Autobiography-by-stealth, and a great complement to his fiction, revelatory and concealing in equal measure, INTO THE DARK HOUSE could be the most mischievous, moving and subversive how-to manual' you've ever read.
More Praise for Edward Carey:
If this were music, Carey would be Eric Satie. If it were film, he would be Tim Burton.' Newsday
Carey, at every step, raises the stakes; he isn't interested in just portraying eccentric characters in an eccentric setting. He wants nothing less than Mastery of technique, of characterization, of setting, of memory, of resonance.' Jeff Vandermeer
Edward Carey is an enormously talented writer ' Publishers Weekly
Carey writes with such persuasive authority, and we are inclined to believe him . The emphasis on detail in Carey's sweetly detached, exact prose has forebears in the illuminated dreams of Borges and Calvino and Georges Perec.' Carey Harrison, The New York Times Review of Books