The stranger next door
a novel (originally published as Les catilinaires)
1st American ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Volk, Carol. - Contributor
Publication
1998 - Henry Holt, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
38,000 words, Guess
Page Count
152 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL678220M
- ISBN-100805048413
- OCLC Control Number37180921
- OCLC Control Numberstrangernextdoor00noth
- Library of Congress Control Number97024566
and 2 more
- LibraryThing15917
- Goodreads43404
Classifications
- DDC843/.914
- LCCPQ2674.O778 C3713 1998
- LCCPQ2674.O778 C37 1995
Description
Emile and Juliette Hazel have just purchased what will be their final home, set in a little clearing an hour's drive from the nearest town. Here, they think, is the place for an idyllic retirement, isolated from the rest of the world save for one neighbor, a doctor, on the far side of the clearing. One day, after they have spent a week in the house, the Hazels' new neighbor comes knocking at their door. Narrated by Emile, this simple story of social obligation yields with impending menace to a deeper exploration of the dangerous cost of restraint. With the peculiar logic of a dream, the doctor continues, unbidden, to visit his neighbors daily. And as he does so, the seed of disquiet in the Hazels' parlor bursts into full horror as Emile is forced to come to grips not only with the stranger next door but also with his own inner darkness.
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