Red House
A dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family, from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.The set up of Mark Haddon's brilliant new novel is simple: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Les mer
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A dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family, from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.The set up of Mark Haddon's brilliant new novel is simple: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter in the process; Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. All eight arrive with low expectations for a pleasant holiday.But because of Haddon's extraordinary narrative technique, the stories of these eight people are anything but simple. Told through the alternating viewpoints of each character, The Red House becomes a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly-guarded secrets and illicit desires, all adding up to a portrait of contemporary family life that is bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt.The Red House is a literary tour-de-force that illuminates the puzzle of family in a profoundly empathetic manner--a novel sure to entrance the millions of readers of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Doubleday Canada
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780385676939
- Utgivelsesår
- 2012
- Format
- Kopibeskyttet EPUB (Må leses i Adobe Digital Editions)