Piranesi (B&N Exclusive Edition)

by Susanna Clarke

Overview

This Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition includes extra scenes from Susanna Clarke's intoxicating, hypnotic new novel.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.

There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

For readers of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781635576757
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	09/15/2020
Edition description:	B&N Exclusive Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Susanna Clarke is the author of the The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories and the New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award–winning Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. She lives in Nottingham, England.

Hometown:

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Date of Birth:

November 16, 1959

Place of Birth:

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Education:

B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, 1981

Website:

http://www.jonathanstrange.com

Editorial Reviews

Clarke's imagination is prodigious, her pacing is masterly and she knows how to employ dry humor in the service of majesty.” —Gregory Maguire, The New York Times

“Ms. Clarke's fertile imagination takes her readers to many a mysterious realm.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times review of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL

“Nobody writes about magic the way Clarke does . . . She writes about magic as if she's actually worked it.” —Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine

“The prose . . . is consistently flawless and beautiful. Reading Clarke is like inspecting some antiquated craft, such as marquetry or fine hand embroidery.” —Graham Joyce, The Washington Post on THE LADIES OF GRACE ADIEU AND OTHER STORIES

“Susanna Clarke shows amazing intellect and imagination . . . One of the finest new authors of our generation.” —Fantasy Book Review

“Whatever Susanna Clarke writes next, I'm dying to read it.” —Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

“Magnificent and original.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post “Best of 2004” listing for JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL

“The writing is captivating, the characters charming, and the notion that perhaps there's more to reality than what our senses tell us is, as Clarke might say with a smile, simply enchanting.” —Nancy Pearl, NPR

“Susanna Clarke's magic is universal.” —Salon

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