The dumb house
Subtitle: a chamber novel
By: John Burnside.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Murder -- Fiction.; Language acquisition -- Fiction.; Mutism -- Fiction.
Description: "The Dumb House is a wonderfully disturbing book--chillingly focused and lyrically amoral with moments of remarkable stillness and beauty. A poetic novel in the best and most troubling sense."--A.L. Kennedy.