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How to Disappear
Amanda Dalton

How to Disappear

Jun 2000
9781852245009
| Paperback
64 pages | 135 x 211 mm | English
Dewey 821.914
LC Classification PR6054.A457 .H69 1999
LC Control No. 00421720

Plot

How to Disappear shines a torch into the dark corners and finds a world inhabited by the missing and the dead, by monsters and wounded beasts, discarded dreams and the memories of strangers – a trawl through the apparently empty spaces and what might be found there. At its heart is the narrative sequence Room of Leaves. It is 1959. Grace, at last, falls in love. Jilted at the altar, she sets up home in the garden of her mother’s bungalow and waits, for thirty years, in a world of birds and bright umbrellas, for Frank to return…