The Red House: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0385535856
- ISBN-13
- 9780385535854
- Series
- The Red House
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-06-12
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Mark Haddon
Description
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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