The Dumb House

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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
Title: The Dumb House
Author(s): Burnside John
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Barcode: 9781784870119
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 4/1/2016
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction