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The Dumb House

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The Dumb House Synopsis

As a child, Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language.

As Luke grows up, his interest in language and the delicate balance of life and death leads to amateur dissections of small animals - tiny hearts revealed still pumping, as life trickles away. But as an adult, following the death of his mother, Luke's obsession deepens, resulting in a haunting and bizarre experiment on Luke's own children.

'A wonderfully disturbing book - chillingly focused and lyrically amoral with moments of remarkable stillness and beauty.' A.L. Kennedy

'Burnside's prose is exquisite, and he dissects his themes with delicacy to produce a novel resonant with poetic menace' Sunday Times

About This Edition

ISBN: 9781784870119
Publication date: 6th August 2015
Author: John Burnside
Publisher: Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 204 pages
Genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction