Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (Virago Modern Classics)

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (Virago Modern Classics) image
ISBN-10:

0140161589

ISBN-13:

9780140161588

Author(s): Comyns, Barbara
Released: Apr 07, 1987
Publisher: Penguin??Books
Format: Paperback, 146 pages
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Description:

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.












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