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WHO WAS CHANGED AND WHO WAS DEAD by Barbara Comyns
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By Lark · 26 posts · 22 views
last updated Oct 29, 2020 11:22AM
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Well, I see it has taken me 2 months to finish this one, but I don't like to read short stories one after the other, so I parceled these out. They are all a bit surprising, taking you to places you didn't realize you were going, and her women and children are not happy creatures at all, but what a stylist she is. Her sentences are works of art. Enjoyable and worth reading.
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This was a perfect collection of disturbing and edgy short stories, mostly populated by girls/women who don't quite fit into the world around them. I limited myself to a story or two a day, and spread the read out. Outstanding.
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