The Familiar, Volume 2: Into the Forest by Mark Z. Danielewski (Author) Publisher: Pantheon; First Edition (October 27, 2015) ISBN-10: 0375714960 ISBN-13: 9780375714962 Flexibound: 880 pages Item Weight: 3.67 pounds Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.86 x 9.21 inches Mark Z. Danielewski began work on The Familiar in 2006, a 27-volume project. The first installment, The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May, was released on May 12, 2015. The story concerns a 12-year-old girl who finds a kitten." Danielewski expects the series to take him over a decade to complete. --------------------- Mark Z. Danielewski (born March 5, 1966) is an American fiction author. He is most widely known for his debut novel House of Leaves (2000), which won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. His second novel, Only Revolutions (2006), was nominated for the National Book Award. Danielewski began work on a proposed 27-volume series, The Familiar, although he completed only 5 volumes before halting the project in 2017. Danielewski's work is characterized by an intricate, multi-layered typographical variation, or page layout. Sometimes known as visual writing, the typographical variation corresponds directly, at any given narratological point in time, to the physical space of the events in the fictional world as well as the physical space of the page and the reader. Early on, critics characterized his writing as being ergodic literature, but recently, Danielewski, who has commented on his disappointment with criticism's inability to properly confront his work, expressed his theoretical approach to literature: Signiconic = sign + icon. Rather than engage those textual faculties of the mind remediating the pictorial or those visual faculties remediating language, the signiconic simultaneously engages both in order to lessen the significance of both and therefore achieve a third perception no longer dependent on sign and image for remediating a world in which the mind plays no part." Very Good- condition - former library ownership with laminated cover, labels rubber stamping