{"product_id":"dreaming-of-dead-people","title":"Dreaming of Dead People","description":"In the ‘middle of life’ – although this is only thirty-six – and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and the rapture: these are her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the medieval masks of Owl, signifying winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. In attendance are dreams of rustic places and once-dear animals. But it is no ordinary procession, for her childhood comes last. The idiosyncratic Dreaming of Dead People was first published in 1979, yet remains as surprising as ever: it is frank, mordantly funny, true to itself and raw.‘By turns shimmering and disquieting, Belben''s exceptional voice deserves a resurgence.’ Irenosen Okojie‘If the world includes Rosalind Belben and her words it cannot be considered an altogether regrettable place to be.’ Harry Mathews‘A beautiful work . . . it says a great deal about the world we live in . . . more life-like and more alive than most fiction.’ Michael Hamburger on Is Beauty Good","brand":"And Other Stories","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51456008257883,"sku":"9781916751316","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/dreaming-of-dead-people","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}