Product Details
Simon & Schuster UK, August 2011
Hardcover, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0857206591
ISBN-13: 9780857206596
Description
Visit the House of Holes, where the motto is PLEASURE FIRST, and discover a solution to every sexual problem, insight into every sexual intrigue, or play out your greatest sexual fantasy. Men can begin with a 'good, friendly penis scrub', take the magic sperm sniff test, or visit the Porndecahedron.
Greedy women can visit the Hall of the Penises, shy women can order a partner with a 'voluntary head detachment', curious couples can investigate each other further with a 'cross crotchal interplasmic transfer'.
But ladies, watch out for the Pearloiner, who might just steal from you what you cherish most …
Greedy women can visit the Hall of the Penises, shy women can order a partner with a 'voluntary head detachment', curious couples can investigate each other further with a 'cross crotchal interplasmic transfer'.
But ladies, watch out for the Pearloiner, who might just steal from you what you cherish most …
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Browse Inside House of Holes“Truly uproarious . . . Baker is one of the most consistently enticing writers of our time.”
-- Sam Lipsyte, front cover of The New York Times Book Review
“Wild and hallucinatory . . . Full of fearlessness, cheerfulness, wit, and brio.”
-- Meg Wolitzer, The Washington Post
“House of Holes is as funny as it is filthy. . . . When he is not writing about sex (and also when he is), Baker is one of the most beautiful, original, ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades.”
-- Charles McGrath, The New York Times Magazine
“A sexy, disturbing, funny book: It may also challenge the usual reader of literary novels with its sheer dazzling excess of imagination.”
-- Kate Roiphe, Slate
“Awe-inducing . . . A joyful, almost Chaucerian book . . . Had Dr. Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book like this.”
-- Tom Bissell, GQ
“A funny, frisky novel that brings sexy back in a way that Justin Timberlake never dreamed . . . Reminds us that books can be fun and sexy, that literature can have just as much raw energy and liberating chaos as a good f*ck.”
-- Mark Haskell Smith, Los Angeles Review of Books
“Brilliant, absurd, puerile, depraved, and completely enthralling.”
-- Steve Almond, The Boston Globe
“A world of universal arousal is common enough in pornography, but Baker has fully realized its comic possibilities . . . [He] can conjure fantastical sexual scenarios and unspool yards of charmingly filthy dialogue.”
-- Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books
“Amazing and indispensable.”
-- Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News
"Amazing and indispensable."
-- Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News
Commonweal, October 14, 2011
...Nicholson Baker’s thirteenth book, House of Holes (Simon & Schuster, $25, 272 pp.), provides an occasion to consider his extraordinary life as a writer, which began with his first novel ...
Time Out Sydney, September 6, 2011
...makes his long-awaited return to the world of raunch Full of raunchy neologisms like asswood, cockbrisket and fuckalope, Nicholson Baker’s latest book, House of Holes, sets the bar for dirty talk in literature. Hardly a page of the novel ...
The Independent, September 1, 2011
...When Nicholson Baker stopped writing about sex after Vox and The Fermata, I thought he'd lost his nerve; now he has returned to it with House of Holes, I fear he ...
Guardian.co.uk, August 26, 2011
...Honey Money by Catherine Hakim, Teju Cole's Open City and House of Holes by Nicholson Baker "I thought this book would be a treat," wrote Jenni Russell in the Sunday Times of Catherine Hakim's Honey Money: The Power of ...
Los Angeles Times, August 19, 2011
...The very literary Nicholson Baker's new novel "House of Holes" is subtitled "A book of raunch." It's full of graphic language and sex scenes -- book critic David L. Ulin called ...
Delmarva Public Radio, August 19, 2011
...vacation at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Karen Russell sat down to talks about her novel Swamplandia! Nicholson Baker thinks if Hugh Hefner had been more like Walt Disney, maybe he would have created The House of Holes, a sexual ...
Huffington Post, August 17, 2011
...: Below is the copy editor's style sheet for Nicholson Baker's House of Holes, which The New York Times has called both a "porny Alice in Wonderland" and a "hideously glorious filthfest" (Sam Lipsyte said the latter; Sam Lipsyte ...
Huffington Post, August 17, 2011
...deadspin.com: Below is the copy editor's style sheet for Nicholson Baker's House of Holes, which The New York Times has called both a "porny Alice in Wonderland" and a "hideously glorious filthfest" (Sam Lipsyte said the latter; Sam Lipsyte ...
Guardian.co.uk, August 16, 2011
...American author returns to the familar theme of sex and remains a master of the off-colour euphemism Author Nicholson Baker has returned to the subject of sex for his latest novel, House of Holes, which is published this week. Reviewers so ...
Huffington Post, August 16, 2011
...Already, Nicholson Baker's latest novel, "House of Holes: A Book of Raunch" has accumulated a pile of press exclaiming over its explicit content . How explicit are we talking? Consider: The House ...
Huffington Post, August 16, 2011
...Already, Nicholson Baker's latest novel, "House of Holes: A Book of Raunch" has accumulated a pile of press exclaiming over its explicit content . How explicit are we talking? Consider: The House ...
New York Times, August 13, 2011
...In this Sunday’s Book Review, Sam Lipsyte reviews Nicholson Baker’s latest book, “House of Holes,” a “hideously glorious filthfest” that leads readers into a bizarre sexual fantasyland. Mr. Lipsyte writes: If this sounds like a ...
New York Times, August 12, 2011
...In Sunday's Book Review, Sam Lipsyte reviews Nicholson Baker's "House of Holes"; Deborah Soloman on the letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, and more ...
New York Times, August 12, 2011
...In Sunday's Book Review, Sam Lipsyte reviews Nicholson Baker's "House of Holes"; Deborah Soloman on the letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, and more ...
Tacoma News Tribune, August 10, 2011
..."House of Holes: A Book of Raunch" by Nicholson Baker; Simon & Schuster (262 pages, $25) Related Links • http://www.latimes.com/ FACEBOOK ACTIVITY "House of Holes: A Book of ...
New York Magazine, August 8, 2011
...Malcolm Gladwell. Nicholson Baker, the author of over a dozen books, has a new novel out this week, House of Holes: A Book of Raunch . Like his books Vox and The Fermata — ...
Kenya Star, August 7, 2011
...Is Another's Squoosh Squoosh Kenya Star (Source: International Herald Tribune) Here is a highly abbreviated chapter from Nicholson Baker's full-throttle pornographic new novel, "House of Holes": "We're professionals. I know it may seem a ...
AllVoices, August 7, 2011
...Here is a highly abbreviated chapter from Nicholson Baker's full-throttle pornographic new novel, House of Holes: Elias Baker Nicholson Baker We're professionals. I know it may seem a little strange to you that we don't ...
AskMen Canada, August 6, 2011
...Click here for a sneak peek of House of Holes. Rhubarb. Pollock. Hellhound. Malcolm Gladwell.These are just four of countless synonyms for “penis” in Nicholson Baker’s scandalous, new, semi-pornographic novel, House of Holes , which ...
Prospect, July 21, 2011
...House of Holes By Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster, £14.99) “She went to a quarry with her Geology 101 class…It was vast and they dug granite there, mostly for tombstones…She ...
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