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But this work isn't about plot, it's about rumination on a life not well lived, the life Fox had led up to now. He's a bitter old sod,but his bitterness is at least well written bitterness, clothed in some staggeringly beautiful passages. It's a fine piece of writing, full of admirable craftmanship.
Smith does a wonderful job of conveying the half-baked thoughts and grievances of a disaffected intellectual, and the images of winter are especially crisp: ‘Every so often, ten or twelve glides or so, I would slow my pace to hear … the soft carelessness of the snow dropping on the gently shuddering hedgerows.’
In A Mind of Winter, Smith has fashioned a bleakly humorous, philosophical, and inescapably human story.
RRP: £7.99
No. of pages: 98
Publication date: 12.10.2023
Re-print date: 12.10.2023
ISBN numbers:
Paperback
978 1 915568 47 2
Rights:
World