Name: The Coming Bad Days
ISBN: 9781911547907

Sarah Bernstein

'I left the man with whom I had been living one morning in late summer after opening the wardrobe and seeing the tidy line of his collars, white and blue, white and blue. I felt sick.'

The Coming Bad Days

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I meditated on these mechanical noises, wondering what effect their infiltration into my sleeping mind might have. I had become interested in the idea of rationalising the body, and so I looked hopefully for indications that my psyche was taking on aspects of the machine. I wanted something beyond and far away from the brute fact of the body and the sympathy and repulsion it evoked in turn. I wanted a state of grace. 

Gary Homewood

A woman leaves her partner, moves to a university town and grapples with loneliness and self imposed exile. Meets a woman called Clara and forms a strange friendship.

Sparse, oblique, and cryptic, strange observations, and a sense of menacing events in the outside world.

Tonal and poetic instead of narrative.

Another great book from Daunt Books

..."all touching, even as it expressed it's yearnings, contained what she called an infinite alterity"

The Coming Bad Days

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