Author

Contributions

  • Silver, Katherine, translator - Contributor

Publication

2015 - New Directions Books, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

25,250 words, Guess

Page Count

101 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC863/.64
  • LCCPQ7798.1.I7 C4613 2015

Description

One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one day, and the old bricklayer who sometimes walked to the cemetery to cheer himself up. Anxious to show off his valuable antiques, the host shows his guests old windup toys and takes them to admire an enormous doll. Back at home, the bachelor decides to watch some late night TV before retiring. The news quickly takes a turn for the worse as, horrified, the newscaster finds herself reporting about the dead rising from their graves, leaving the cemetery, and sucking the blood of the living, all somehow, disturbingly reminiscent of the dinner party.

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