The Hollow House

"'I used to look across the street from my window through the windows of others, but none faced me directly so I could never see more than thin slices of rooms. People appeared from time to time, like pearl divers, briefly coming back to the surface for a breath of air...I was in love with life after dinner, beyond windows that weren't mine, of people I didn't know. There were smells I could imagine, food and dish-washing, telephone calls I was sure I could hear, blue flashes of programmes I could have watched myself although it wouldn't have been the same.'" "As a young man drives hard through the night to reach the sea, he is stopped by the harsh wind and by a bed-and-breakfast perched on a hill above a remote village of fishermen. Alone, with no other guests, he has a disturbing encounter with the bed-and-breakfast's young hostess. But the following day the house is silent and the girl seems to have disappeared, as the village awakens to the news of the strange young man's arrival."--BOOK JACKET.

Year

2001

Language

English

Publisher

Picador

Editions

3

Pages

320

ISBN

9780330480482

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