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Hell-part mystery, part domestic meditation, part horror story-is a brilliantly eerie novel in which three households coexist in a single restless vision: a dollhouse; a dysfunctional family in 1950s Philadelphia; and the cottage home of Edwina Moss, a nineteenth-century expert on domestic management. While the inhabitants of the dollhouse are powerless to shape their destiny, the four members of the Philadelphia family dedicate themselves to mutual vigilance, as if it might be possible to show more forestall disaster. Meanwhile, Edwina Moss concedes domestic control to the imagination and, finally, to the spirit of the great culinary artist and chef to Napoleon, Antonin Carm?e. show less

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Way too weird for me. I was very disappointed in this book. Especially since I was really looking forward to it, the dollhouse scenario especially. For me, it was confusing and fell flat.
Wow, I don't remember this at all, but it's on my reading list so I must have tried it.
From the description, it sounds kind of tedious:
"This demanding and rewarding third novel by the author of Labrador and The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf will delight all serious readers. Its sensuous prose and vivid rendering of the minutiae of everyday life propel the reader through three haunting tales woven together."

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Kathryn Davis is also the author of novels, "The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf" & "Hell." The recipient of a Kafka Prize, she teaches at Skidmore College & lives with her husband & their daughter in Vermont. (Publisher Provided)

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Hell

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Horror
DDC/MDS
813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
LCC
PS3554 .A934923 .H45Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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