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Alice Knott by Blake Butler
A hypnotic, wildly inventive novel about art, violence, and endurance
Alice Knott lives alone, a reclusive heiress haunted by memories of her deceased parents and mysterious
near-identical brother. Much of her family’s fortune has been spent on a world-class collection of artwork,
which she stores in a vault in her lonely, cavernous house. One day, she awakens to find the
artwork destroyed, the act of vandalism captured in a viral video that soon triggers a rash of
copycat incidents. As more videos follow and the world’s most priceless works of art are destroyed
one by one, Alice finds that she has become the chief suspect in an international
conspiracy—even as her psyche becomes a shadowed landscape of childhood demons and cognitive disorder.
Alice Knott lives alone, a reclusive heiress haunted by memories of her deceased parents and
mysterious near-identical brother. Much of her family’s fortune has been spent on a world-class
collection of artwork, which she stores in a vault in her lonely, cavernous house. One day,
she awakens to find the artwork destroyed, the act of vandalism captured in a viral video
that soon triggers a rash of copycat incidents. As more videos follow and the world’s most
priceless works of art are destroyed one by one, Alice finds that she has become the
chief suspect in an international conspiracy—even as her psyche becomes a shadowed
landscape of childhood demons and cognitive disorder.
Alice Knott by Blake Butler
