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A review by rpmirabella
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
5.0
My second read of this book.
I think I am in the right place now. I just really loved it this time. I enjoyed it the first time, too, but I'd read it after The Vet's Daughter, which made this seem heartless by comparison. But this is a very different animal to Comyns' other work. This has more in common with myth, or books like SULA or the work of James Purdy. Mean and dark and ghastly. AND funny.
I think I am in the right place now. I just really loved it this time. I enjoyed it the first time, too, but I'd read it after The Vet's Daughter, which made this seem heartless by comparison. But this is a very different animal to Comyns' other work. This has more in common with myth, or books like SULA or the work of James Purdy. Mean and dark and ghastly. AND funny.