Claire-Louise Bennett’s short fiction and essays have been published in The Moth, The Irish Times, and other publications. She was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize in Pond is her first book. Bennett lives in Galway, Ireland/5(). · In the most literal sense, the twenty stories that make up Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut, Pond, record a series of moments in the life of an English woman living alone on the west coast of Ireland. The woman eats fruit, tries to replace a broken dial on her Salton mini oven, and wonders if the cows in a nearby field believe she is www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. Pond. by. Claire-Louise Bennett. · Rating details · 4, ratings · reviews. Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying /5.
And yet Claire-Louise Bennett's POND feels entirely unique. Quiet and luxurious all at once, this will be one of the most sensational debuts of the year." —Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin "Claire-Louise Bennett sets the conventions of literary fiction ablaze in this ferociously intelligent and funny debut. And yet Claire-Louise Bennett ' s Pond feels entirely unique. Quiet and luxurious all at once, this will be one of the most sensational debuts of the year. ' — Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin 'Claire-Louise Bennett sets the conventions of literary fiction ablaze in this ferociously intelligent and funny debut. Claire-Louise Bennett's short fiction and essays have been published in The Moth, The Irish Times, and other publications. She was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize in Pond is her first book. Bennett lives in Galway, Ireland.
In the most literal sense, the twenty stories that make up Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut, Pond, record a series of moments in the life of an English woman living alone on the west coast of Ireland. The woman eats fruit, tries to replace a broken dial on her Salton mini oven, and wonders if the cows in a nearby field believe she is Jesus. "Pond” by Claire-Louise Bennett Riverhead, First Edition, 1st Printing • • Dust Jacket: Fine Dust jacket shows very little wear. Light surface scratches to gloss, fine. Light curling to spine ends, with light edge wear. Protected in archival mylar. Hardcover: Near Fine Riverhead, Pond. by. Claire-Louise Bennett. · Rating details · 4, ratings · reviews. Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying.
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