{"product_id":"0385676921-the_red_house","title":"The Red House","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eA dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family, from the author of \u003cb\u003eThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eBut 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, \u003cb\u003eThe Red House\u003c\/b\u003ebecomes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Red House\u003c\/b\u003eis a literary tour-de-force that illuminates the puzzle of family in a profoundly empathetic manner--a novel sure to entrance the millions of readers of \u003cb\u003eThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eFamily Saga\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Doubleday Canada","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":48788781629630,"sku":"0385676921-3","price":11.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/51l5KxSv2_L._SL500.jpg?v=1787754786","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0385676921-the_red_house","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}