Hell, Kathryn Davis
Hell, Kathryn Davis
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Hell
A Novel

Author: Kathryn Davis

Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers

Unabridged: 5 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/27/2019

Synopsis

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 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 Carême.

About Kathryn Davis

Kathryn Davis has received a Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches in the graduate program at Washington University in St. Louis. The Thin Place is her sixth novel.

About Elisabeth Rodgers

What do you do with a BA in English from Princeton University? You go to New York to pursue an acting career, and end up putting all of your skills together as an audiobook narrator. Elisabeth Rodgers first started recording audiobooks for the National Library Service of the Library of Congress at the American Foundation for the Blind (Talking Book Productions) in New York City. After she had numerous titles under her belt, she branched out, and has since narrated over 100 titles for a variety of publishers. She was the recipient of an Audie Award for the full-cast recording of Sherlock's Secret Life in 2000. Her work on The Last Chinese Chef, Annexed, The Naked Eye, and Mapping the Heavens garnered AudioFile magazine's prized Earphones Awards, and she was lucky enough to join the star-studded cast of Audible, Inc.'s Audie-nominated production of The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, as well as the Earphones-winning MetaBook audio-drama production of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Elisabeth continues to work both onstage and in the studio. She lives in the Lower East Side of New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Blair on October 16, 2018

Hell is a haunted-house story like no other I've ever read. In the town of 'X', histories intersect and overlap as the narrative shifts between a family (the author's own?) in the 1950s; a doll's house belonging to the eldest daughter; Edwina Moss, the 19th-century writer of a book about household m......more

Goodreads review by Ben on February 05, 2014

Here is a gilded puzzle box of a novel, intricate, ornate, meticulously crafted and mysterious. This is a work of virtuosic abstraction, a novelistic fugue that eschews linear plotting and instead braids various motifs around interwoven narrative threads, the most prominent of which include: (1) an......more

Goodreads review by Maria on January 25, 2011

I discovered Kathryn Davis via her fantastic story in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me and now I'm wondering how I missed her all these years. Her work will appeal to fans of Angela Carter (Saints and Strangers)and Kelly Link (Magic for Beginners), and this book in particular reminds me......more

Goodreads review by Peter on December 23, 2013

One thing is certain, Kathryn Davis is smarter than me. I read her novel, HELL, as I often find myself reading poetry, as if a foreigner. I let the words build up as sounds, sometimes even with meaning, but mostly with a sense of awe and wonder. There were strains of narrative that I picked up (summ......more

Quotes

“A tour de force made up of the surreal and the poetic, of skillful shifts in voices, settings, and eras.” Kirkus Reviews

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