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Finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Fiction Winner of the 2011 ABA Indies Choice Honor Award in Fiction Winner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award Shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize in Fiction A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through. “[An] elegiac novel...achieved through exquisitely chosen sensory details that reverberate with emotional intensity. Here [Krauss] gives us her tragic vision pure. It is a high-wire performance, only the wire has been replaced by an exposed nerve, and you hold your breath, and she does not fall.” —Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, The New York Times Book Review “This stunning work showcases Krauss’s consistent talent...Krauss pulls together the disparate elements, settings, characters, and fragile connective tissue to form a formidable and haunting mosaic of loss and profound sorrow.” —Publishers Weekly “[Krauss] writes of her characters’ despair with striking lucidity...an eloquent dramatization of the need to find that missing piece that will give life its meaning.”—Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal “Krauss herself is a fiction pioneer, toying with fresh w

Who reads Great House: A Novel?

Author

Krauss, Nicole

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393340648

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Psychology, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.46 / 5 (13,770 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14