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The Rich Man's House

di Andrew McGahan

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In the freezing Antarctic waters south of Tasmania, a mountain was discovered in 1642 by the seafaring explorer Gerrit Jansz. Not just any mountain but one that Jansz estimated was an unbelievable height of twenty-five thousand metres. In 2016, at the foot of this unearthly mountain, a controversial and ambitious 'dream home', the Observatory, is painstakingly constructed by an eccentric billionaire - the only man to have ever reached the summit. Rita Gausse, estranged daughter of the architect who designed the Observatory is surprised, upon her father's death, to be invited to the isolated mansion to meet the famously reclusive owner, Walter Richman. But from the beginning, something doesn't feel right. Why is Richman so insistent that she come? What does he expect of her? When cataclysmic circumstances intervene to trap Rita and a handful of other guests in the Observatory, cut off from the outside world, she slowly begins to learn the unsettling - and ultimately horrifying - answers.… (altro)
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Loved this book and days later, I'm still thinking about it. It eludes genre-classification and all I can compare it to is Stephen King's works - a thriller that is real and realistic in all but one little aspect which changes everything. If someone were to describe the plot to me, I would have brushed it aside as not my thing and would never have read it. So I urge you to give this one a go even if the blurb sounds kind of weird to you. An interesting point is that this book has a lot masculine features - the rugged setting, the ambitious ruthless billionaire, the dangerous mountaineering... yet the main character is a woman who is rather sensitive (don't worry there is no mushy gushy stuff here). The contrast works really well - it balances the story but also adds to the feeling of disturbance. Highly recommend. ( )
  JuliaMay | Dec 10, 2020 |
Andrew McGahan's last novel before his death from cancer in 2019 is a ripper.
He tells the tale of a super-wealthy man who is the only person to have climbed the world's highest mountain. (No, it's not Everest, you'll have to read the book).
Bring into the tale a woman with a curious past, where she once wrote a book about the "presences" that could be found in natural phenomena, ignoring the fact that LSD and cocaine were useful in discovering and dealing with them, and it becomes clear that the Rich Man wants to clear his new, fabulously extravagant home of all pesky, potential "presences".
It doesn't quite work out as he might hope it will.
The author notes in a preface that he was rushed to complete this novel, and there are some passages that really could do with some editing.
But, all in all, it's a rollicking adventure, and so different to anything else he published.
It's worth reading, but not as good as 'The Good Earth', 'Last Drinks' or 'Praise'.
Vale, Andrew. Thank you. ( )
  buttsy1 | Feb 22, 2020 |
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In the freezing Antarctic waters south of Tasmania, a mountain was discovered in 1642 by the seafaring explorer Gerrit Jansz. Not just any mountain but one that Jansz estimated was an unbelievable height of twenty-five thousand metres. In 2016, at the foot of this unearthly mountain, a controversial and ambitious 'dream home', the Observatory, is painstakingly constructed by an eccentric billionaire - the only man to have ever reached the summit. Rita Gausse, estranged daughter of the architect who designed the Observatory is surprised, upon her father's death, to be invited to the isolated mansion to meet the famously reclusive owner, Walter Richman. But from the beginning, something doesn't feel right. Why is Richman so insistent that she come? What does he expect of her? When cataclysmic circumstances intervene to trap Rita and a handful of other guests in the Observatory, cut off from the outside world, she slowly begins to learn the unsettling - and ultimately horrifying - answers.

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