The Dumb House
As a child, Lukeas mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language. As Luke grows up, his interest in language and the delicate balance of life and death leads to amateur dissections of small animals a tiny hearts revealed still pumping, as life trickles away. But as an adult, following the death of his mother, Lukeas obsession deepens, resulting in a haunting and bizarre experiment on Lukeas own children.The teacher was telling us how the key to the poeta#39;s thinking lay in a single phrase, something about how dissection is murder; how, as soon as you chose to dissect a ... aYou cana#39;t just cut a flower or a laboratory rat open and find its essence.
| Title | : | The Dumb House |
| Author | : | John Burnside |
| Publisher | : | Random House - 2010-12-15 |
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