Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

Fiction. This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid-flood, ducks swimming in the drawing-room windows, quacking their approval as they sail around the room. What about my rose beds? demands Grandmother Willoweed. Her son shouts down her ear-trumpet that the garden is submerged, dead animals everywhere, she will be lucky to get a bunch. Then the miller drowns himself...then the butcher slits his throat...and a series of gruesome deaths plagues the villagers. The newspaper asks, Who will be smitten by this fatal madness next? Through it all, Comyns' unique voice weaves a text as wonderful as it is horrible, as beautiful as it is cruel. Originally published in England in 1954, this overlooked small masterpiece is a twisted, tragicomic gem.

Author: Barbara Comyns
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project
Published: 11/01/2010
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780984469314
ISBN10: 0984469311
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Humorous | Black Humor
- Fiction | Classics

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