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Unfortunately Nina and Andrew aren't terribly engaging: a depressed Nina trudges through life, and the majority of the novel proceeds accordingly. The mother's point of view is the most interesting. She shares hypotheses about why her children are inseparable yet estranged from their parents. The reader hears about the father only through the family's accounts of his rage, twisted logic, and proclivities, all of which easily justify the dysfunctional state of the family. Nina summarizes her family in succinct prose: "My father never smiled; my mother narrowed her eyes when her lips turned up, as if happiness caused her discomfort. Andrew did smile: a slow, almost dreamy smile, his face so relaxed he might have been falling asleep to sweet dreams as he looked into your eyes. I never saw that expression except for the times we were alone." The Doctor's House has its moments, but fans of Beattie will continue to champion her stories foremost. --Michael Ferch
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. First Scribner Trade Paperback Edition. An impeccable ear for language an eye for the smallest shifts in the cultural landscape and a preternatural understanding of motivation and behaviorAnn Beatties renowned storytelling abilities are on dazzling display in The Doctors HouseThe story opens on Nina who should have better things to do than to track her brother Andrews sexual escapades Since her husbands tragic death she has become solitary and defensiveand as compulsive about her brother as he is about sexWhen the first movement ends the melody is taken up by their mother New shadows and new light fall on Ninas account as painful secrets of life in the house of their father the doctors house emerge In the dramatic third movement Andrew gives us his perspective and as Beattie takes us into his mind there is the suggestion that Nina is less innocent and less detached than she maintainsThrough subtle shifts The Doctors House chronicles the fictions three people fabricate in order to interpret to justify or simply to survive their lives Few novelists are more adept at creating fictional atmospheres that eerily simulate the texture of everyday life The Washington Post. Seller Inventory # DADAX0743235010
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