โ Scribed by Bennett, Claire-Louise
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
-- The Millions' "A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut? -- O, the Oprah Magazine Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett?s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. Sidestepping the usual conventions of narrative, it focuses on the details of her daily experience?from the best way to eat porridge or bananas to an encounter with cows?rendered sometimes in story-length, story-like stretches of narrative, sometimes in fragments no longer than a page, but always suffused with the hypersaturated, almost synesthetic intensity of the physical world that we remember from childhood. The effect is of character refracted and ventriloquized by environment, catching as it bounces her longings, frustrations, and disappointments?the ending of an affair, or the ambivalent beginning with a new lover. As the narrator?s persona emerges in all its eccentricity, sometimes painfully and often hilariously, we cannot help but see mirrored there our own fraught desires and limitations, and our own fugitive desire, despite everything, to be known. Shimmering and unusual, Pond From the Hardcover edition.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
\*\*Shortlisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize "What Bennett aims at is nothing short of a re-enchantment of the world. ... This is a truly stunning debut, beautifully written and profoundly witty." *The Guardian*\*\* Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louis
**Shortlisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize Named one of *The Millions'* Most Anticpated Books of 2016 "A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut ... *Pond* makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. ... [It]reminds us that small things have great depths."**โ**
**_Massacre Pond_ is Edgar finalist Paul Doiron's superb new novel featuring Game Warden Mike Bowditch and a beautiful, enigmatic woman whose mission to save the Maine wilderness may have incited a murder **On an unseasonably hot October morning, Bowditch is called to the scene of a bizarre cri
Newbery Honor winner Janet Taylor Lisle's gorgeous and profound new novel about a pivotal summer in two girls' lives explores the convictions we form, the judgments we make, and the values we hold. The pond is called Quicksand Pond. It's a shadowy, hidden place, full of chirping, shrieking,
A factory worker in China revenges himself on party bosses when they pass him up for promotion because he won't kow-tow to them. The worker, Shao Bin, creates a political cartoon in a provincial newspaper and it becomes an instant success. A satire on China by the author of Ocean of Words.