Universal Harvester

Resumen del libro

It's the late '90s, and you can find Jeremy at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa, a small town in the center of the state. The job's nice enough, quiet and predictable, until a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets an old movie, starring Boris Karloff and registers an odd complaint: There's something on it, she says, but doesn't elaborate. Two days later, another customer returns another tape a new release this time and says the same: There's another movie on this tape.

In Universal Harvester, the once-placid Iowa fields and farmhouses become sinister, imbued with loss and instability and foreboding. As Jeremy and those around him are absorbed into tapes, they become part of another story one that unfolds years into the past and years into the future, part of an impossible search for something someone once lost that they would do anything to regain.

Biografía del autor

JOHN DARNIELLE nació en 1967 en Bloomington, Indiana; aunque pasó su infancia y juventud en California. Es principalmente conocido por ser el compositor, guitarrista y vocalista de The Mountain Goats, banda en activo desde 1991 con la que ha publicado más de seiscientas canciones. Está considerado uno de los mejores letristas americanos de todos los tiempos. Su primera novela, Wolf in White Van (Lobo en la camioneta blanca, Contra, 2015) resultó finalista del National Book Award y el Alex Awards; y el New York Times lo eligió como uno de los mejores libros del año. La Casa del Diablo es una narración épica y apasionante sobre el asesinato, la verdad y los peligros de contar historias. Actualmente es candidata al Premio Edgar 2023 a mejor novela.