John Darnielle at Pages of Hackney

Join us for an evening with John Darnielle as he discusses his novel Universal Harvester at Sutton House with Pages of Hackney.

Jeremy works at the counter of Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It’s the 1990s, pre-DVD, and the work is predictable and familiar; he likes his boss, and it gets him out of the house. But when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets, she has an odd complaint: ‘There’s something on it,’ she says. Two days later, another customer brings back She’s All That and complains that something is wrong: ‘There’s another movie on this tape.’

Curious, Jeremy takes a look. And what he sees on the videos is so strange and disturbing that it propels him out of his comfortable routine and into a search for the tapes’ creator. As the once-peaceful fields and barns of the Iowa landscape begin to seem sinister and threatening, Jeremy must come to terms with a truth that is as devastatingly sad as it is shocking.

Darnielle is the author of two novels, Universal Harvester and the US National Book Award-nominated Wolf in White Van, as well as the songwriter and frontman of beloved indie rock back The Mountain Goats. This unique event will be the only chance to see him discuss his literary work in the UK this year.

Universal Harvester

John Darnielle

RRP: £8.99 Pub date: 13 Apr 2017 Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Cover view

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