Originally published in 1986, Rebecca Brown's brilliant first novel explores the psychic repercussions of growing up in an alcoholic family, and the ways in which one woman’s past continues to inform and inhabit her life. Robin Daley’s childhood is dominated by a sense of impermanence: her father, a flamboyant, hard-drinking military pilot whom Robin both idolizes and resents, disappears as suddenly and unexpectedly as he arrives; her family is forever packing and unpacking their possessions as they move from one place to the next. Her adulthood offers an escape, a chance to find what it is she longs for--security, love, a place to call home. But strange things happen when the dark corners and locked rooms of family life are revealed, and Robin finds that her world is still haunted by her past in ways that are wildly fantastic and terribly real.
"A doom-filled heart-aching first novel, flooded with meditative fantasy."--Kirkus Review
“Thank goodness for once one can say here is a real new voice—ripe and imaginative, often funny, and sliding craftily between fact and wishful fantasy.”–The Sunday Times (London)
“Exceptionally well written . . . Rebecca Brown takes her readers from the ordinary realities of army-base living and often gone, drinking/drunken pilot father into the unrealities of living with adults in denial, where the thin lines between daily life and reality shrink and disappear.”--Carol Seajay, Feminist Bookstore News
Format
Paperback
Nb of pages
201 p.
ISBN-10
087286460X
ISBN-13
978-0-87286-460-3
GTIN13 (EAN13)
9780872864603
Publication Date
01 August 2007
Main content page count 201
Weight
16 oz.
List Price
$13.95
Original Title
The Haunted House
Original Language
English
Original Publisher
Seal Press
Original Publication
1986