Hmmmm, Stylish
Brian Dillon: Claire-Louise Bennett, 20 October 2016
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by Claire-Louise Bennett.
Fitzcarraldo, 177 pp., £10.99, October 2015,978 1 910695 09 8 Show More
by Claire-Louise Bennett.
Fitzcarraldo, 177 pp., £10.99, October 2015,
“... There are many ‘nice’ things in Claire-Louise Bennett’s fiction. The narrator – she seems to be the same person in all twenty stories – is hardly up in the morning before the nice things press on her: ‘Sometimes a banana with coffee is nice,’ she says in ‘Morning, Noon & Night’. ‘It ought not to be too ripe – in fact there should be a definite remainder of green along the stalk, and if there isn’t, forget about it ... ”