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ANGEL HOUSE
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After crossing a vast inland sea in an ark called ANGEL HOUSE, Professor Squimbop docks on a distant shore. As soon as his anchor makes purchase, a town sprouts up that may or may not ...more
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One of Vol. 1 Brooklyn's Most Anticipated Books of June 2019:
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After crossing a vast inland sea in an ark called ANGEL HOUSE, Professor Squimbop docks on a distant shore. As soon as his anchor makes purchase, a town sprouts up that may or may not ...more
Paperback, 1st, 426 pages
Published
June 17th 2019
by Kernpunkt Press
(first published June 13th 2019)
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Angel House hooked me at the onset and held me throughout its thought-provoking story. It's rich with drama, surrealism, and complex (but always compelling) aesthetics. Rice's ability to connect the reader with the cast of characters on a deep level seemed to tailor the book's town to me. I feel as though the experiences in the novel stem from the unifying struggle we share in our quest to bring form to the abstractions that dwell within us. This sense is not limited to the artist's goals, but
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Angel House creates a unique and hard-to-describe atmosphere that stays with the reader long after the book is finished. The author delights in shining a new light on the familiar from an angle that brings out its grotesque form. Highly recommended.
Wild stuff - strap in. Really impressive cast of characters, all of whom are interesting, all of whom are unusual - very highly recommend. The author must really live in that world, seems to know it well!
A bizarre and captivating story with an interesting interplay between a few different ideas: there's a cautious relationship between two old friends, complicated by their divergent histories; a tenuous balance between local and global forces (sometimes helpful, sometimes threatening); a woozy back-and-forth between the fever-dreams of the narrators and the truly fucked-up world they inhabit.
Check this book out - it's a great dive into a surreal and yet unsettlingly (sometimes ashamedly) familiar ...more
Check this book out - it's a great dive into a surreal and yet unsettlingly (sometimes ashamedly) familiar ...more
Angel House is an eerie and melancholy read. Its protagonists, two best friends, exist simultaneously as nine-year-olds dreaming of making movies, and twenty-nine-year-olds just returned from some City to which they had escaped. It captures the barrenness and horror of being stuck in a small town, and the monstrous strangeness of trying to proverbially "go home again," with fiercely inventive and grotesque (sometimes disturbing) images. And along with the horror elements there's a lot of genuine
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Angel House is a book like no other. I'm not exaggerating in the slightest. A darkly comic and psychedelic journey through a dilapidated nostalgic dream/nightmare world. I enjoyed it immensely and laughed often.
Professor Squimbop is a unique and refreshing character (I hesitate to call him a villain). If there is more Squimbop literature, which there deserves to be, I will devour it as he devours us. J.L. Wind's speech is one of the funniest things I've read and will stick with me for a long ...more
Professor Squimbop is a unique and refreshing character (I hesitate to call him a villain). If there is more Squimbop literature, which there deserves to be, I will devour it as he devours us. J.L. Wind's speech is one of the funniest things I've read and will stick with me for a long ...more
In this novel, characters who exist in superposition attend a reunion in a town that may just be a template (since most places and businesses have purposefully generic names), where everything is identifiable and grotesquely defamiliarized, since everything seems to exist as a nightmare version of all that gooey nostalgia you have for your old stomping grounds, which are, by the way, being haunted by a terrifying figure who has no analogue, but who does have a goofy name: Professor Squimbop.
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