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At the beginning of June the river floods, ducks swim through the drawing-room windows and Ebin Willoweed rows his daughters round the submerged garden. The grandmother dresses in magenta for her seventy-first-birthday whist drive and looks forward to the first prize of pate de foie gras. Later Ives the gardener leads a morose procession up river, dragging her to a funeral in a black-draped punt. the miller goes mad and drowns himself and a cottage is set alight. Villagers keep dying and at the ...

At the beginning of June the river floods, ducks swim through the drawing-room windows and Ebin Willoweed rows his daughters round the submerged garden. The grandmother dresses in magenta for her seventy-first-birthday whist drive and looks forward to the first prize of pate de foie gras. Later Ives the gardener leads a morose procession up river, dragging her to a funeral in a black-draped punt. the miller goes mad and drowns himself and a cottage is set alight. Villagers keep dying and at the house on the river plates are thrown across the luncheon table and a tortoise through a window. The newspaper asks "What will be smitten by this fatal madness next?" Originally published in 1954, this strange novel with its macabre humour, speaks with Barbara Comyns' unique and magical voice. Книга «Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead» автора Барбара Коминс оценена посетителями КнигоГид, и её читательский рейтинг составил 8.00 из 10.
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  • Серия: Virago Modern Classics
  • ISBN (EAN): 860686779
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  • Год написания: 1992


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