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Summary
Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the
brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly
right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House: a surreal
place where visitors see what they want to see, including
some things that should be impossible. Every nine years, the
house's residents--an odd brother and sister--extend a unique
invitation to someone who's different or lonely: a precocious
teenager, a divorced policeman, a shy college student. But
what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find
out, it's already too late. . . . Spanning five decades, from the last days of the 1970s to
the present, leaping genres, and barreling toward an
astonishing conclusion, this...