BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • Alice Knott

    (By Blake Butler)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 24 MB (24,083 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 626 times
    Last checked 11 Hour ago!
    Author Blake Butler
    “Book Descriptions: From the ingenious mind of a language a wildly inventive novel about art, surveillance, our age of viral violence—and one woman's psychic survival

    A troubled, reclusive heiress, Alice Knott lives alone, haunted by memories of her deceased parents and mysterious, near-identical brother. Much of her fortune has been spent on a world-class collection of artwork, which she stores in a vault in her lonely, cavernous house. One day, she awakens to find several of her most prized artworks destroyed, the act of vandalism captured in a viral video that soon triggers a rash of copycat incidents. As more videos follow, and an astonishing legacy of international art hangs in the balance, Alice finds that she has become the chief suspect in an international conspiracy—even as her psyche becomes a shadowed landscape of childhood demons and cognitive disorder.

    Hallucinatory, unsettling, almost physically immersive, Alice Knott is a mind-bending rabbit hole of a a virtuoso exploration of the meaning of art, the corporatization of culture, and the lasting afterlife of trauma, as well a deeply humane portrait of a woman whose struggles feel both fantastically apocalyptic and dangerously, universally real.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Entitlement

    ★★★★★

    Rumaan Alam

    Book 1

    The Repeat Room

    ★★★★★

    Jesse Ball

    Book 1

    In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

    ★★★★★

    William H. Gass

    Book 1

    Rejection

    ★★★★★

    Tony Tulathimutte

    Book 1

    A Collapse of Horses

    ★★★★★

    Brian Evenson

    Book 1

    Polostan (Bomb Light, #1)

    ★★★★★

    Neal Stephenson

    Book 1

    Creation Lake

    ★★★★★

    Rachel Kushner

    Book 1

    Dark Entries

    ★★★★★

    Robert Aickman

    Book 1

    The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)

    ★★★★★

    Jean Hanff Korelitz

    Book 1

    In Search of Lost Time

    ★★★★★

    Marcel Proust

    Book 1

    Termush

    ★★★★★

    Sven Holm

    Book 1

    The Kingdom of This World

    ★★★★★

    Alejo Carpentier

    Book 1

    My Phantoms

    ★★★★★

    Gwendoline Riley

    Book 1

    Ceremony

    ★★★★★

    Leslie Marmon Silko

    Book 1

    The Ghost Notebooks

    ★★★★★

    Ben Dolnick

    Book 1

    A Month in the Country

    ★★★★★

    J.L. Carr