{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/who-was-changed-and-who-was-dead","description":"“Comyns’ novel is deranged in ways that shouldn’t be disclosed.” —Ben Marcus This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid-flood, ducks swimming in the drawing-room windows, “quacking their approval” as they sail around the room. “What about my rose beds?” demands Grandmother Willoweed. Her son shouts down her ear-trumpet that the garden is submerged, dead animals everywhere, she will be lucky to get a bunch. Then the miller drowns himself . . . then the butcher slits his throat . . . and a series of gruesome deaths plagues the villagers. The newspaper asks, “Who will be smitten by this fatal madness next?” Through it all, Comyns\u0026#39; unique voice weaves a text as wonderful as it is horrible, as beautiful as it is cruel. Originally published in England in 1954, this “overlooked small masterpiece” is a twisted, tragicomic gem.","author_name":"Barbara Comyns","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/barbara-comyns-7d1bbca9-fb36-4f94-97d4-963261e437ef","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/30418624/8085043-L.jpg","thumbnail_width":318,"thumbnail_height":405}