Davila's collection of short stories expertly balances dread, grief and humour across its entries with each of her haunted protagonists falling into horrors that may be literal or just the madness of their claustrophobic, fraying inner worlds.
Davila's collection of short stories expertly balances dread, grief and humour across its entries with each of her haunted protagonists falling into horrors that may be literal or just the madness of their claustrophobic, fraying inner worlds.
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"all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice... the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Marx, riffing on...
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