{"product_id":"dreaming-of-dead-people","title":"Dreaming of Dead People","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the 2026 Republic of Consciousness Prize, US \u0026amp; Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the ‘middle of life’ – although this is only thirty-six – and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and the rapture: these are her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the medieval masks of Owl, signifying winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. In attendance are dreams of rustic places and once-dear animals. But it is no ordinary procession, for her childhood comes last.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe idiosyncratic Dreaming of Dead People was first published in 1979, yet remains as surprising as ever: it is frank, mordantly funny, true to itself and raw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e~ ~ ~ ~ ~\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePraise:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben was brilliant. It’s a life story but it’s told in various sections [. . .] – there’s one that goes on about Robin Hood, then there’s one about masturbation. Collectively, it provides a more cohesive sense of a whole psyche than a regular life story would.’ - Claire-Louise Bennett\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Extremely beautiful, utterly convincing, and rivals anything by Virginia Woolf.’ - Melissa Harrison\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘A seductively strange novel. In Belben’s writing, time periods dissolve: the phenomenon of the medieval pageant is invoked; Robin Hood becomes a character; dreams are recorded; and desires rise up, then settle down.’ - Rhian Sasseen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53468213543259,"sku":null,"price":23.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/8951\/5850\/files\/zabriskie_dreamingofdeadpeople.jpg?v=1782813643","url":"https:\/\/zabriskie.de\/en\/products\/dreaming-of-dead-people","provider":"Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur","version":"1.0","type":"link"}