Duplex - Paperback

by Kathryn Davis (Author)

Utterly compelling . . . Davis writes with a stunning brilliance, creating fractured worlds that are both extraordinary and routine. --The Boston Globe

A coming-of-age-meets-dystopian-fantasy-meets-alternate-reality novel, or maybe an Ionesco-meets-Beckett-meets-Oulipo novel . . . The world Duplex] describes has gone cuckoo while its characters' anxieties remain stubbornly, drably, daringly familiar. --Tom Bissell, Harper's Magazine

Enchanting . . . Hums beautifully to its own rhythm. It's a series of dreamlike, often erotic, images and interconnected plot lines that . . . swell to create an intoxicating atmosphere. --Slate

For fans of the fantastical, Davis's writing style is a glass of ice-cold water in today's desert of conventional fiction. --Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

I fell] in love with Davis's writing . . . I'm grateful for every word . . . When you are lost in the uncanny woods of this astonishing, double-hinged book, just keep reading, and remember to look up. Kathryn Davis knows right where you are. --Lynda Barry, The New York Times Book Review

Reading this book is a blast . . . Duplex is a traditional love story tucked inside an adult fairy tale, wrapped in science fiction . . . Thankfully, the laws of quantum mechanics do not power Duplex's magnetism. Instead, it is Davis's beautiful prose, her psychological awareness. --Rosecrans Baldwin, NPR, All Things Considered

Author Biography

Kathryn Davis is the author of six previous novels, most recently The Thin Place. She is the senior fiction writer on the faculty of the writing program at Washington University.