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Doubleday
June 2012
On Sale: June 12, 2012
272 pages
ISBN: 0385535775
EAN: 9780385535779
Kindle: B006NKNGJ8
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Fiction Family Life
An 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. The stage is set for seven days of resentment
and guilt, a staple of family gatherings the world over. 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. As
we come to know each character they become profoundly real
to us. We understand them, even as we come to realize they
will never fully understand each other, which is the
tragicomedy of every family. 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.
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