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Chargement... House of Stairs (original 1974; édition 1991)par William Sleator
Information sur l'oeuvreHouse of Stairs par William Sleator (1974)
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I read this a million years ago, and it has lived rent free in my head almost all my life. It was kind of formative at the time (I was a teenager). ( ) The concept was interesting but the reality of this book was that it was disappointing...to be polite. The characters were boring and the chances of this ever being able to happen would be extremely low if not impossible. What I couldn't figure out was why none of these 5 kids...in the absence of any adults...ever tried to escape. I guess you might view it differently if you were 13-15 years old.
Author William Sleator has revealed that all five characters are based upon real people in his own life, including himself. This is no-doubt why every character’s personality was created to such a high detail, making them so relatable and believable, but in no way boring. The strange setting and title of this ominous novel were taken from House of Stairs by Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher, who created a piece of art featuring endlessly twisting stairs at impossible angles. Prix et récompensesListes notables
Five sixteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment on conditioned human response. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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