K. Arnold Price (1893–1989)

from Observer:

Colm Toibin

New Perspective (1980)

K Arnold Price

This is a short Irish novel which deals entirely with private life; it is a middle-aged woman's most subtle and sensuous and intelligent study of her relationship with her husband. I found it haunting at the time and I am still haunted by its stillness and rich cadences and powerful distinctions between levels of feeling, but I have only ever met two other people who have read it and they are both writers. It does not read like a first novel and has some of the hallmarks of a Bergman movie. The author, I later learnt, was 84 when it was published. She published only one other novel.

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