"Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite
quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. Luna meets a man made of light
bulbs at a tanning parlor. So begins Nicholson Baker’s fuse-blowing,
sex-positive escapade, House of Holes.
Baker, the bestselling author of The Mezzanine, Vox, and The Fermata,
who “writes like no one else in America”
(Newsweek), returns to erotic territory with a gleefully over-the-top novel set
in a pleasure resort, where normal rules don’t apply. Visitors, pulled in via
their drinking straws or the dryers in laundromats, can undergo crotchal
transfers . . . make love to trees . . . visit the Groanrooms and the
twelve-screen Porndecahedron . . . or pussy-surf the White Lake. It’s very expensive,
of course, but there are work-study programs. In charge of day-to-day
operations is Lila, a former hospital administrator whose breast milk has
unusual regenerative properties. Brimful of good-nature, wit, and surreal
sexual vocabulary, House of Holes is a modern-day Hieronymous Boschian
bacchanal that is sure to surprise, amuse, and arouse..”
