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ISBN 978–0–9557285–1–8
First published November 2007; 200 pp paperback; 198 x 126 mm
£7.99 |
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Erik Houston, born in 1972, was a violinist who played as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe and in the United States, Japan and Russia. He taught at the Purcell School and at the Royal College of Music. He died in August 2010.
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Erik Houston The White Room
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Bjorn stumbles on, watching his feet disappear and reappear, and over again. And then comes his road, his house, his door. Upon opening this door he is surprised to find that it is snowing inside, too. The place has been gutted but his hallway is filled with white. Nothing is clear. He stands still and looks ahead, confused, as if he's waiting for someone. Meanwhile, the exit is being filled in.
Who knows how much time passes?
Then, through the falling snow, he begins to see past the drifts, to where someone is standing.
Love approaches at odd angles; death too. Yet these may be hard to spot, while so much else is competing for attention: a seafaring parrot, a kissing brothel, Latvian wrestlers, a watercolorist witch, a dismembered mannequin . . . The White Room is a zigzag descent into darkness, lit by those moments when you can sit in a tree and see eternity.
‘A haunting reverie on love and loss.’
– Christopher Hope
‘A beautifully crafted tale of interlocking lives in London and Norway, imbued with a Scandinavian melancholy.’
– Monocle |
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