This is the late 1990s, and even if the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut, there are still regular customers, a rush in the late afternoon. It’s a small town in the center of the state-the first a in Nevada pronounced ay. Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. So begins Universal Harvester, t he haunting and masterfully unsettling new novel from John Darnielle, author of the New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Nominee Wolf in White Van Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut. more sensitive than one would expect from a more traditional tale of dread.” beyond worthwhile it’s a major work by an author who is quickly becoming one of the brightest stars in American fiction. Darnielle is a master at building suspense, and his writing is propulsive and urgent it’s nearly impossible to stop reading. "A moving, beautifully etched picture of America’s lost and profoundly lonely." -Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day and winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature
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