The hundred-year house
By: Rebecca Makkai
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780525426684; 9780143127444
Subjects: Family secrets; Fiction; College teachers; Artist colonies; Eccentrics and eccentricities
Other titles: 100-year house
Description: "A dazzlingly original new novel from the acclaimed author of The Borrower. Now, Makkai returns with an ingenious novel set on an historic estate that once housed an arts colony. Doug, the husband of the estate's heir, desperately needs the colony files to get his stalled academic career back on track. But what he discovers when he finally gets his hands on them is more than he bargained for. Doug may never learn the house's secrets, but the reader will, as Makkai leads us on a thrilling journey into the past of this eccentric family"--