![]() ![]() ![]() But then the mood shifts in gracefully poignant directions. While Clare hides out in Richard’s apparent new apartment - in which “everywhere she saw slight disorder” - the sinister ring of the rotary phone spells Scream-level doom, its sudden vibrations all but trembling the page at other times, she’ll feel as if she’s just “swallowed rocks” or placed an ice-cube down her shirt - sensations which contribute to this novel’s Kafkaesque sense of reality. Her descriptions - whether concise or elongated - simply demand attention. An award-winning writer of short fiction, van den Berg is a storyteller of astonishing detail. ![]()
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