House of Stairs
One by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere ?except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it...
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One by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere ?except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives. But will they let it kill their souls? This chilling, suspenseful indictment of mind control is a classic of science fiction and will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. ?An intensely suspenseful page-turner.? ?School Library Journal ?A riveting suspense novel with an anti-behaviorist message that works . . . because it emerges only slowly from the chilling events.? ?Kirkus Reviews
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140345803 (0140345809)
Publish date: April 1st 1991
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
The reader is thrown into a perplexing and grim environment right off the bat. One by one we're introduced to five teenagers who have been brought into an experiment. Few details of their outside life are explained, a grim series of foster homes and orphanages for four of them and the last goes at l...
A modern classic. I read House of Stairs frequently as a child, and was happy to see this speculative novel from 1974 stands the test of time.That's because Sleator wisely keeps the "futuristic" science fiction touches to a minimum. There's a very '70s reference to air pollution, but it isn't pivota...
Lately, I've been re-reading books that I had read as a teen, and I'm happy to say that thirty years later, I still love this book. The amazing thing (to me) is that House of Stairs is just as current today as it was back then. It is set in an unspecified, futuristic setting, yet now its seems ver...
I received the sad news today that Bill Sleator died. Bill was a wonderful man and a great author. I loved turning kids on to his books. House of Stairs is one my favorites. I've read it several times and booktalked it often.
Fünf 16-jährige Waisen, die in einem dystopischen Amerika leben, finden sich ohne Vorwarnung in einem fantastisch anmutenden Gebäude wieder, das nur aus Treppen besteht, sie haben fliessendes Wasser und eine Grundmenge an Nahrung, die ihnen aber nur zugeteilt wird, wenn sie sich in einer bestimmten ...
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