Dreaming of Dead People (Paperback)
Belben, Rosalind (Author)
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In the 'middle of life' Lavinia reviews her frustrations, her solitariness, the grief and the rapture, her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the masks of Owl, for winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. Dreaming of Dead People, first published in the 1970s, remains as surprising, frank, mordantly funny and raw as ever.
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'So extraordinarily good that one wants more, recognising a writer who can conjure an inner life and spirit, can envisage, in unconnected episodes, a complete world: one unified not by external circumstances but by patterns of ...
ISBN (SKU)
9781916751316
Weight
189g
Dimensions
198x130
Imprint
And Other Stories
Published
04, August, 2025
Genres
Fiction
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