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The Thin Place : a Novel by Davis, Kathryn, 1946- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><P>The prize-winning author of Versailles tells the story of a small New England village unsettled by a young girl's unearthly gift. In Varennes, a town near the Canadian border, three girls come across the body of a dead man on the local lake's beach. Two of them run to get help, but twelve-year-old Mees Kipp stays with the body and somehow, inexplicably, brings it back to life. Her mysterious gift is at the center of this haunting and transcendent novel.</p><h3>The New Yorker</h3><p>In the opening pages of this brilliant, peculiar book, three small-town girls discover a man&rsquo;s corpse at the edge of a lake, and one of them, Mees Kipp, mysteriously brings him back to life. Davis writes hallucinatory, literate prose, and adopts a cosmic perspective: she is concerned with nothing less than describing the town&rsquo;s every waking moment. The experiences of Mees&rsquo;s dog, trotting through a clearing that smells of porcupine, stand alongside those of a minister&rsquo;s wife reading her morning paper and &ldquo;confronting whatever form the devil had chosen to assume overnight.&rdquo; In any other book, a magical resurrection would be a central event; for Davis, it&rsquo;s ju

Who reads The Thin Place : a Novel?

Author

Davis, Kathryn, 1946-

Publisher

New York: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Co.

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316014243

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy

Rating

3.28 / 5 (1,110 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14