Demonology (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Rick Moody
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Plot: Metafiction, realism
- Time of Work: The 1990's
- Setting: Suburban Hackettstown, New Jersey
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Meredith
- Genres: Short fiction, Metafiction
- Subjects: Death or dying, Holidays, Bereavement or grief, Giants, Halloween
- Locales: United States
The Story
“Demonology” consists of chronologically discontinuous fragments, many of which detail the last two days of Meredith's life; the rest offer apparently random vignettes through which the narrator remembers his sister. The story begins with Meredith taking her children out trick-or-treating on Halloween, and initially, it appears to be a sympathetic portrait of a woman by her loving brother.
Various flashbacks show that Meredith comes from a reasonably well-off family and that she lived an exuberantly hedonistic life as a young woman. Members of both her...
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