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“... the feet ‘(if they still had them)’ tied to stones? Grief gets everywhere, we know that, but Fleur Jaeggy, at her best, steers clear of things that are common knowledge: ‘It is only distractions, uncertainty, distance that bring us closer to our targets, and then it is the target that strikes us.’Jaeggy was ...”

“... people (Kathy Acker, David Bowie, Connie Converse) in the fiction, and real people (Susan Sontag, Fleur Jaeggy, Kaitlin Phillips) in the real endnotes. Lacey has said her intent was random and irreverent – ‘There’s no hidden agenda or code,’ she told the New York Times – but it is also pragmatic. How many novels about artists fail to convince ...”