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The Red House

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From Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, comes a dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family life.

Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Against the backdrop of a strange family gathering, Haddon skillfully weaves together the stories of eight very different people forced into close quarters. The Red House is a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly guarded secrets and illicit desires, painting a portrait of contemporary family life that is at once bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt.

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ISBN9780307949257
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date03/12/13

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    A fragmented, stream of consciousness-style story about eight people with various problems of their own get together for a vacation. Point of views shift constantly, even between paragraphs, sometimes even including excepts of what people are reading. Sometimes it takes a while to find out in whose head you are at the moment. Everyone is their own complicated, normal-but-complex individual. I found it interesting to jump from head to head, getting immersed in everyones own, specific point of view and seeing what's on their minds. The main storyline is almost non-existent, or at the very least irrelevant. it's about thoughts and emotions, experiences and significant banalities. If you can get along with the experimental writing style, it's surely worth a read. It's very different from "Incident of the dog in the night-time" though. Do not expect a similar read or you'll be very disappointed.

    Feb 8, 2018

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