FICTION · LARGE TYPE
Anne Rivers Siddons
CLAIRE SWANSON FROM TWO DOORS UP WAS THE FIRST ONE to tell me about the Harralson house.
— from The house next door, 1978
Most acclaimed
The house next door
1978
Their lives would never be the same. Colquitt and Walter Kennedy enjoyed a life of lazy weekends, gathering with the neighbors on their quiet, manicured street and sipping drinks on their patios. But when construction of a beautiful new home begins in the empty lot next door, their easy friendship and relaxed get-togethers are marred by strange accidents and inexplicable happenings. Though Colquitt's rational mind balks at the idea of a "haunted" house, she cannot ignore the tragedies associated with it. It is as if the house preys on its inhabitants' weaknesses and slowly destroys the goodness in them -- ultimately driving them to disgrace, madness and even death.
Reencuentro
Tom y su esposa Claire; profesores de un colegio en Minnesota, son un matrimonio ejemplar. Sin embargo, su felicidad se verá turbada dramáticamente. La inesperada aparición de Mónica, una ex amante de Tom, y su hijo Kent, desestabilizará su perfecta existencia conyugal y afectará la vida de todos los involucrados. El parecido del joven Kent con Tom es sorprendente, y para enrarecer aún más las cosas, el joven traba una estrecha amistad con la hija de Tom y Claire...
Fault lines
2000
Merritt Fowler is a natural caretaker. Most of her life she has cared for her beautiful, erratic younger sister, Laura; her self-sacrificing physician husband, Pom; and her lovely, fragile sixteen-year-old daughter, Glynn. Now, in this strange summer of unnaturally warm weather and growing pressures, she is caring too for her husband's destructive, controlling mother, who is ill with advanced Alzheimer's disease. Exhausted and confused, Merritt no longer knows quite who she is or what is important to her. She only knows that something deep inside is about to crack. A fierce family quarrel sends Glynn running west from Atlanta to seek sanctuary with her aunt Laura, a fine actress whose promising Hollywood career is in decline. Merritt goes after her daughter - against Pom's wishes and in the face of his anger - and she impulsively decides to stay in California to see if the widening fissures between mother, sister, and daughter can be healed. After a head-on collision with Laura's shallow, seductive Hollywood world and her betraying film director lover, the three women end up in Laura's red Mustang convertible, barreling up the wild coast from the Palm Springs Desert to the Santa Cruz Mountains outside San Francisco - earthquake country. In a borrowed lodge among the great redwoods, they finally stop to confront one another and their own demons.