The Red House
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.Show more
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I know that it's a perfectly valid literary technique to write in fragments rather than full sentences. I know that frequent jumps from one character's perspective to another is also quite acceptable. But I find books that do either too much, let alone both, very hard to read. And yes, Haddon employs both techniques throughout this book. So you may take my less-than-positive feelings about this book with a grain of salt, but there it is.
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