Pond
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Pond
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The work Pond represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Lewisville Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Pond
- Statement of responsibility
- Claire-Louise Bennett
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "Longlisted 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-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 demands to be devoured in a single sitting that will linger long after the last page"--
- "A tour de force fiction debut, darkly humorous and utterly original, in which the habits and observations of a solitary young woman illuminate her inner life with uncanny, irresistible intimacy"--
- Assigning source
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- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Citation location within source
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- July 01, 2016
- July 01, 2016
- May 01, 2016
- February 01, 2016
- Citation source
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- Booklist
- Library Journal
- Kirkus Reviews
- Library Journal Prepub Alert
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6102.E562
- LC item number
- A6 2016
- Literary form
- fiction
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