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The Coming Bad Days
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The Coming Bad Days
'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.'
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After leaving the man with whom she'd been living, an unnamed protagonist in an unnamed university city is working unspectacularly on the poet Paul Celan. The abiding feeling in the city is one of paranoia; the weather has been deteriorating and outside her office window she can hear police helicopters circling, looking for the women who have been disappearing. She is in self-imposed exile, hoping to find dignity in her loneliness. But when she meets Clara - a woman who is exactly her opposite - her plans begin to unravel.
Reminiscent of Rachel Cusk, Gwendoline Riley and Thomas Bernhard, The Coming Bad Days is a penetrating interior portrait of feminine negation and cruelty.
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The Coming Bad Days by Sarah Bernstein is praised for its compelling exploration of isolation and the mundane nuances of modern life. Critics appreciate its haunting prose and introspective narrative, highlighting the author's ability to encapsulate the tension and unease of personal and societal upheavals. Readers often find the themes resonant, delving into the emotional landscape of its unnamed protagonist with subtle depth and a touch of the surreal.
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ISBN: 9781911547907
Publisher: Daunt Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 April 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Daunt Books
Audience: General / adult
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Pages: 272
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Sarah Bernstein is from Montreal, Quebec and lives in Scotland where she teaches at Edinburgh University. Her fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in tender, Contemporary Women's Writing, MAP and Cumulus. Now Comes the Lightning, a collection of poems, was published by Pedlar Press in 2015.
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