Dreaming of Dead People

Author(s): Belben, Rosalind,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 05/08/2025,
Pagination: 144 pages, Illustrations,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: And Other Stories,
Published By: And Other Stories,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 17
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781916751316

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In the ‘middle of life’ – although this is only thirty-six – and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and the rapture: these are her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the medieval masks of Owl, signifying winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. In attendance are dreams of rustic places and once-dear animals. But it is no ordinary procession, for her childhood comes last. The idiosyncratic Dreaming of Dead People was first published in 1979, yet remains as surprising as ever: it is frank, mordantly funny, true to itself and raw.

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