“Makkai guides her twisty, maximalist story with impressive command and a natural ear for satire. Equal parts screwball comedy, intellectual sex farce, historical drama and old-fashioned ghost story, The Hundred-Year House sometimes feels like the precocious love child of John Irving’s The Hotel New Hampshire and a rousing game of Clue.”Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. “The Hundred-Year House is a funny, sad and delightful romp through the beginning, middle and end of an artists' colony as well as the family mansion that sheltered it and the family members who do and don't survive it. Told backwards from the viewpoints of an array of eccentric and intertwined characters, the story's secrets are revealed with stunning acuity/5(). · Rebecca Makkai’s “The Hundred- Year House ” is a ghost story set on the Devohr estate, Laurelfield, near the shores of Lake Michigan, 30 miles north of bltadwin.ru: Martha Mcphee.
The Hundred-Year House. by Rebecca Makkai. Viking Adult, $ Published J. The Book We're Talking About is a weekly review combining plot description and analysis with fun tidbits about the book. Advertisement. What we think. The acclaimed author of The Borrower returns with a dazzlingly original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield. "Rebecca Makkai is a writer to watch, as sneakily ambitious as she is unpretentious." -Richard Russo Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents' wealth but nevertheless. Rebecca Makkai's "The Hundred-Year House" is a ghost story set on the Devohr estate, Laurelfield, near the shores of Lake Michigan, 30 miles north of bltadwin.ru alluring structure of the.
Rebecca Makkai's latest book, "The Hundred-Year House," is an academic satire that evolves into a labyrinthine series of symmetries, mysteries and puzzles. Rebecca Makkai's latest book, "The. The Hundred-Year House is Rebecca Makkai's second novel; her debut book is called The Borrower. Philippe Matsas/Courtesy of Viking/Penguin. Yeah, pretty much. Minus the bootleggers today. John Cheever apparently once said of Yaddo that it’s like a monastery by day and a cruise ship by night, and I’d say that’s fairly accurate, at least some of the time. Mostly people sit around talking about art in the evenings and drinking wine, but there are always crazy stories about the.
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