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Pond
Claire-Louise Bennett
Category: Fiction Short Stories
Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 4/10/23
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
ISBN 13: 9780198810506
Total Pages: 184 pages
Weight: 122
Dimensions: 196 x 114 x 14
Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted in these stories is unsettling yet intimately familiar and soon takes on a life of its own. Captivated by the stellar charms of seclusion but restless with desire, the woman's relationship with her surroundings becomes boundless and increasingly bewildering. Claire-Louise Bennett's startlingly original first collection slips effortlessly between worlds and is by turns darkly funny and deeply moving.