House Rules
Published on 19. October 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-85242-461-9 (ISBN)
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lee has just been expelled from boarding school. Unwilling to go home to her abusive father, she escapes to the horse-show circuit and begins an affair with a beautiful but dangerous rider named Tory Markham. Through Tory, she becomes involved with a disreputable team of brother and sister trainers: Carl, notorious for his ruthless training methods, and Linda, who keeps the stable ? both the horses and the riders ? doped on narcotics. Lee?s descent into a web of violent sex and heroin addiction is depicted with hellishly vivid precision. First published in 1995, House Rules established Heather Lewis? reputation as a gifted and uncompromising writer.
Reviews / Votes
?This utterly unexpected book dives straight into the chaos of an American adolescence, echoing the infernal laughter of William S. Burroughs as it probes the messier forms of sexual awakenings? Gary Indiana ?Heather?s death marks more than a personal loss. It also ended an era in literature. Some might call it a period of experimentation or innovation, but I think of it simply as a time when literature was, as it so rarely is, relevant to more than students of literature? Dale Peck, New York Magazine Book Review It's like a car wreck on the highway: the reader is repulsed but can't look away. Jim Thompson meets "National Velvet" * Sarah Schulman *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
250 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85242-461-9 (9781852424619)
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Person
Heather Lewis is the author of three novels: Notice, House Rules and Second Suspect. In 2002, she took her own life at the age of 40.