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The Red House

✍ Scribed by Mark Haddon

Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Year: 2012
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 181 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

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...

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