Fiction
The West House
by Erik Dussere
Description
When Kese, just out of college, starts his summer job in a small New England town, he finds himself trying to unravel a mystery. Charlotte West, rich and imperious, has been baffling the locals since she arrived in the town more than twenty years ago. Does she have a dark past—or is she just an excuse for Kese to indulge an obsession, or to avoid the encroaching boredom of his days? His investigation takes him back through the history of the town and of America itself, with its borders of class and race and bloodline.
A work of literary fiction with an American mystery at its center, The West House is about the traumatic pasts that haunt the book’s characters, and about the stories that it is possible for us to tell about those pasts, those hauntings.
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Praise for The West House
“A truly captivating book. It works as twisty noir but it also succeeds as an elegiac look at a particular town at a particular time and place. Dussere has penned a remarkably self-assured novel, and readers will be surprised upon finishing to learn that it is his first.”
– Dave Zirin, The Nation Magazine
“Elegant and mysterious, The West House draws you into its elaborate web from the very first page. Dussere captures that moment when we begin to understand that the answers to our obsessive curiosities are writ large upon the very foundations of American mythmaking.”
– Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Wench and Balm
Author Biography
Erik Dussere is originally from Oswego, in central New York. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts, and his Ph.D. is from Rutgers University. He currently lives in Takoma Park, MD and teaches classes in literature and film at American University in Washington, DC. He has published Balancing the Books (a study of the way that the novels of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner deal with the history of slavery) and America Is Elsewhere (which looks at the tradition of "noir" in post-WWII film and fiction and its relationship to consumer culture). He has also written about X-Men comics (in Salon) and Pogo comic strips (in the Journal of American Culture).
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Copyright 2020: Erik Dussere, All rights reserved
Regal House Publishing
Regal House Publishing was founded in 2014 by Jaynie Royal, editor-in-chief.
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- Publisher Regal House Publishing
- Publication Date October 2020
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781646030101 / 1646030109
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 16.95 USD
- Pages264
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleEnglish
- Original Language AuthorsEnglish
- EditionFirst
- Copyright Year2020
- Dimensions8.5 x 5.5 inches
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