House Of Leaves Author’s New 1,232-Page Book Gets Huge Limited-Time Discount

If you’ve read Danielewski’s House of Leaves, The Familiar, or one of his other works, you may expect to see a wide array of fonts, inverted text, random pictures, academic citations, and other formatting oddities. But you actually won’t find any of those quirks here.

Tom’s Crossing is structured and presented like a conventional novel, one paragraph after another–though Danielewski does italicize dialogue instead of quotes. Traditional formatting means you won’t find large swaths of white space, so Tom’s Crossing is by far his longest novel by word count. But if you aren’t scared away by the staggering page count, I think you’ll find Tom’s Crossing to be Danielewski’s most approachable work of fiction. I eclipsed the halfway mark this week and am thoroughly enjoying it.

But if you don’t want to take this Steven’s word for it; the lone blurb on the back of the dust jacket is from Stephen King:

“This is an amazing work of fiction. I absolutely loved it. At the heart you’ll find a blood-drenched story of pursuit and two brave and resourceful children. But there’s so much more. I immersed myself. Have never read anything like it.”