![]() ![]() ![]() Its sections vary in length, with some as short as a few sentences, and each offers the reader insight into the quiet domestic existence of Bennett's narrator. It is narrated by a nameless woman living in a small cottage in rural Ireland. It may be read as 20 mostly interlinked stories or as a novella fractured into twenty parts. Great literature doesn't point out where to look but how to see everything in a new light, as though we have made the discovery ourselves in a kind of imaginary derive." The Australianīennett's debut is a slim volume that eschews traditional narrative conventions. " Pond's real achievement, in making us look for the 'real' narrator - and narrative - is to make us see everything around us and the things we often overlook, including and especially ourselves. ![]()
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