Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond is earthy and dark – and very hard to write about
Like Lydia Davis, Bennett uses a solitary, highly educated female narrator who contemplates chores with a literary-linguistic cast of mind.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
Like Lydia Davis, Bennett uses a solitary, highly educated female narrator who contemplates chores with a literary-linguistic cast of mind.
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