07503cam a2200649 4500 240256419 TxAuBib 20140811120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385535854 0385535856 B006NKNGJ8 Amazon 2f75d464-4d89-498c-96aa-7439d9174110 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 705889 OverDrive (Product ID) 216964 705889 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Haddon, Mark. The Red House [Libby] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2262kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:"Absorbing.... Even if you don't see your relatives in these pages, you'll learn to appreciate their ungainly efforts to reach out and maintain those old filial bonds....What holds our interest is Haddon's extraordinary sympathy, his ability to reveal what stirs these people beneath their congenial holiday faces....a brilliant portrayal of the asymmetric nature of resentment within families....But it's Hardon's peculiar structure that raises this family drama to something exceptional. He's perfected a constantly shifting perspective that keeps our sympathies from taking root in any one of these characters....the effect is symphonic....Haddon wends a careful path in this novel between the effervescent comedy of quirky families and the bitter tragedy of dysfunctional ones.". The Washington Post. "A story of remarkable complexity, exploring the rich interior lives of his characters.....Most impressive is the ambitious structure of this novel....there's an abundance of dark humor....the story moves along swiftly and seamlessly.". USA Today. ""The story unfolds from all eight characters' points of view, a tricky strategy that pays off, letting Haddon dig convincingly into all of the failures, worries and weaknesses that they can't leave behind". Entertainment Weekly. "Particularly fresh and true". O Magazine. "A beautiful and authentic portrait of a blended family and the secrets, grudges and desires that keep its members apart". Real Simple. "In Mark Haddon's The Red House, a nuclear family detonates delightfully....particular, vivid, attentive....a wonderful perspective". Cleveland Plain Dealer. "A fun, fast-paced read from one of our finest storytellers". Dallas Morning News. "THE RED HOUSE employs the same empathy for its varied characters and the same sharply observed, skewed view of the 'ordinary' world....creates a mosaic whose pieces add up to a picture no one character can see....satisfying and believable....Haddon writes with a gentle, compassionate sense of irony". Columbus Dispatch. "Exciting and accessible". The Daily Beast. "Amusing and poignant as it explores a family's fumbling attempts at connection". Whole Living. "Surprising and deeply moving....the set-up ensures that there will be revelations, twists and shifts in the family dynamic....sustaining suspense....while enriching the developing relationships among people....organic rather than contrived, the characters convincing throughout, the tone compassionate and the writing wise. A novel to savor.". Kirkus, starred review. "[Haddon] is almost unrivalled at the notoriously tricky task of giving an authentic voice to children, and his ability to pinpoint the comic aspects of the everyday scenarios.". Sunday Times. "A masterly evocation of two dysfunctional, yet outwardly respectable families.". Sunday Express. "Mark Haddon is terrifyingly talented.". Times (UK.) "A serious, lyrical, complex novel....beautiful". The Herald. "Hugely enjoyable, sympathetic novel would make perfect reading for those setting out on holiday". The Observer. "With writing as elegant and truthful as this, readers will wish to keep their copies close at hand to savour again.". HTML:The Daily Mail. "[Haddon] writes like a dream. Never showy, but often lyrically descriptive, he takes the reader with him to the core of this crazy family. Secondly, he has a true understanding of the human heart.". Spectator. HTML:"It's every bit as charmingly idiosyncratic as his brilliant The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.". HTML:The Daily Mirror. "Engaging....From the first page in which the train carrying Dominic and Angela's family "unzips the fields", there is a vigor to Haddon's prose which carries you along. I read it twice, both times with enjoyment.". The Independent. "A triumph of empathy.". HTML:The New Yorker. "Gloriously ecce. HTML:The Boston Globe. HTML: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. Media Type: eBook. 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