Bennett, ClaireLouise

Pond

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ISBN 13:: 9780399575907
author:: Bennett, ClaireLouise
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Riverhead Books
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2017
Pages:: 208
Dimensions:: 20.32 x 12.95 x 1.27 centimetres
Genre:: Fiction & Literature, General,
Condition:: New
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Pond is a sharply observed and eccentric debut novel that introduces Claire-Louise Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. With its focus on the details of daily life, this slim volume captures the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist with mesmerizing virtuosity.

The story unfolds in fragmented stretches, from the best way to eat porridge or bananas to encounters with cows, all suffused with the hypersaturated intensity of the physical world. As the narrator's persona emerges, we see mirrored there our own fraught desires and limitations, and our own fugitive desire to be known.

This shimmering and unusual novel demands to be devoured in a single sitting, its effects lingering long after the last page is turned.

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