01248cam a2200253 4500 94500524 TxAuBib 20120724120000.0 100719s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010029946 9780393079982 0393079988 (OCoLC)601096650 DLC eng DLC YDX BTCTA YDXCP WVR UPZ IK2 LF3 VP@ BWX CDX OCLCQ BDX TxAuBib Krauss, Nicole. Great house / Nicole Krauss. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2010. 289 p. ; 25 cm. Connected solely by a desk of enormous dimension and many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away, three people--a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis--struggle to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss. Loss (Psychology) Fiction. Memory Fiction. Psychological fiction.