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Hell

by Kathryn Davis · 1998

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Part mystery, part domestic meditation and part horror story, Hellis Davis's tour de force." (Joy Press, The Village Voice.) In her brilliantly eerie third novel, three households coexist in a single restless vision.

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adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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