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Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

By Barbara Comyns

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Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

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Fiction. This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid-flood, ducks swimming in the drawing-room windows, "quacking their approval" as they sail around the room. "What about my rose beds?" demands Grandmother Willoweed. Her son shouts down her ear-trumpet that the garden is submerged, dead animals everywhere, she will be lucky to get a bunch. Then the miller drowns himself...then the butcher slits his throat...and a series of gruesome deaths plagues the villagers. The newspaper asks, "Who will be smitten by this fatal madness next?" Through it all, Comyns' unique voice weaves a text as wonderful as it is horrible, as beautiful as it is cruel. Originally published in England in 1954, this "overlooked small masterpiece" is a twisted, tragicomic gem.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
216
Release Date:
2010-11-01
Publication Date:
2010-11-01
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0984469311
ISBN13:
9780984469314
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[email protected]
Weight:
244 g
Height:
141 cm
Width:
177 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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