![]() ![]() “Their creative imaginings would reach my ears slander by gravitational slander. “All this made sense within the context of our intricately coiled, overly secretive, hyper-gossipy, puritanical yet indecent, totalitarian district,” she writes. The whole town is engaged in a culturally enforced conspiracy of gaslighting. ![]() “At the time, age eighteen,” she says, “having been brought up in a hair-trigger society where the ground rules were - if no physically violent touch was being laid upon you, and no outright verbal insults were being leveled at you, and no taunting looks in the vicinity either, then nothing was happening, so how could you be under attack from something that wasn’t there?” What’s worse, her community, even her family, assumes that she’s to blame for enticing the milkman away from his wife. ![]() ![]() England is the country over the water, and Ireland the country over the border. But what makes him so destructive to the narrator’s mental health is that she has no vocabulary with which to resist or even describe what’s happening to her. The two sides of the political conflict are referred to as renouncers of the state and defenders of the state. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She is the author of two novels, No Bones and Little Constructions, and of the novella, Mostly Hero. The milkman is a character of mysterious power amid a vast network of spies, bombmakers and killers. Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ![]()
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