Books by Claire-Louise Bennett
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2. Novel/literature : Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels . One of the very very best books for social science too, and one of my favorite books period. After Joyce, there is also Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Lord Dunsany, John Banville ( The Untouchable ), William Trevor, and Elizabeth Bowen. Iris Murdoch was born in Ireland, but does she count? More recently I have enjoyed Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, Eimear McBride, Claire Louise-Bennett , with Mike McCormack in my pile t...
Claire Louise-Bennett, Pond , more from Ireland, short, nominally fiction but more like a circular sensory experience of reading overlapping short stories, with a cumulative effect akin to that of poetry. I found this one mesmerizing.
2. Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond . This is not a plot-based novel, rather it is Irish and poetic and much of it I read a second time. Most of you would find it frustrating.