The Hunters Paperback - 2002
by Claire Messud
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- Title The Hunters
- Author Claire Messud
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York
- Date 2002
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0156007312I3N00
- ISBN 9780156007313 / 0156007312
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.28 x 0.61 in (20.32 x 13.41 x 1.55 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
"A Simple Tale" is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Germans for slave labor and eventually relocated to Canada as a displaced person. She struggles to provide her son Radek with every opportunity, but his eventual success increases the gulf between him and his mother. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting the weight of that past burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are common to us all.
"The Hunters," the second novella, is narrated by an American academic spending a summer in London who grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor, a plump and insipid caretaker of the elderly, lives with her ever-unseen mother and a horde of pet rabbits she calls "the hunters." While the narrator researches a book about death, all of Ridley Wandor's patients are dying. Loneliness breeds an active imagination. Is having such an imagination always destructive? Or can it be strong enough to create a new reality?
Far-flung settings and universal themes give a sweeping appeal to Claire Messud's work.
"The Hunters," the second novella, is narrated by an American academic spending a summer in London who grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor, a plump and insipid caretaker of the elderly, lives with her ever-unseen mother and a horde of pet rabbits she calls "the hunters." While the narrator researches a book about death, all of Ridley Wandor's patients are dying. Loneliness breeds an active imagination. Is having such an imagination always destructive? Or can it be strong enough to create a new reality?
Far-flung settings and universal themes give a sweeping appeal to Claire Messud's work.
First line
When Maria Poniatowski let herself into Mrs. Ellington's apartment at 7:55 a.m. precisely (she was always five minutes early; she timed her walk that way), on the third Tuesday of August in 1993, and saw, at once, the trail of blood smeared along the wall from the front hall towards the bedroom, she knew that this was the end.
