The job is good enough for Jeremy, quiet and predictable, and it gets him out of the house, where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom, who died six years ago in a carwreck. It's the late '90s, and you can find Jeremy Heldt at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa-a small town in the center of the state. "The most unsettling book I've read since House of Leaves." more sensitive than one would expect from a more traditional tale of dread." -Joe Hill, New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) beyond worthwhile it's a major work by an author who is quickly becoming one of the brightest stars in American fiction." Darnielle is a master at building suspense, and his writing is propulsive and urgent it's nearly impossible to stop reading. "A moving, beautifully etched picture of America's lost and profoundly lonely." -Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day and winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature So begins Universal Harvester, the haunting and masterfully unsettling new novel from John Darnielle, author of the New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Nominee Wolf in White Van.Ī Finalist for the Locus Award (Best Horror Novel) Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut.
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