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Devotion
- A Rat Story
- ナレーター: Cassandra Campbell
- 再生時間: 52 分
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あらすじ・解説
From one of the most popular and acclaimed story writers of her generation, a single-volume short story.
"That the yellow house was thrillingly affordable might have been a warning sign if Eleanor had known how to read it. But she'd been desperate. She was sharing a room with her four-year-old daughter, Hattie, in her parents' house, and she had to get out."
From the award-winning novelist and short story writer Maile Meloy, Devotion: A Rat Story is an exquisitely unsettling tale about a young single mother whose new home becomes a kind of nightmare she must resolve on her own.
Eleanor is in such a rush to move away from her parents that she allows an imperious realtor to rush her to close on the too-good-to-be-true home without an inspection. Shortly after the house becomes legally hers - with every cent and all of her pride and future tied up in the property - the giant rats show themselves. In the yard, in the kitchen, on her daughter's bed. A walk around the block reveals a decrepit neighboring house where two elderly sisters are feeding and fostering thousands of unusual "pets". What has Eleanor done? What action can she possibly take now?
In Meloy's characteristically clean, assured style, she captures the hopes and horrors of domestic life with an element of suspense that drives the listener feverishly to the end.
批評家のレビュー
"[Meloy is] a wise and astonishing conjurer of convincing realities." (The New Yorker)
"She’s such a talented and unpredictable writer that I’m officially joining her fan club; whatever she writes next, I’ll gladly read it." (Curtis Sittenfeld, The New York Times Book Review)
"Maile Meloy combines the meticulous realism of domestic fiction with the witchery of a natural-born storyteller." (The New York Times Magazine)