Over The Frontier
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What begins as a wry, introspective comedy of manners transforms, with startling and dreamlike velocity, into something far darker and more haunting — this is the singular achievement of Stevie Smith's Over The Frontier. The novel follows Pompey Casmilus, the sharp-tongued and fiercely independent heroine first introduced in Smith's debut Novel on Yellow Paper, as her witty, digressive meditations on love, identity, and modern womanhood give way to a sinister journey across a mysterious, war-shadowed frontier into a world of violence, moral ambiguity, and psychological unease. Smith's prose is unlike anything else in twentieth-century British literature — conversational yet profound, comic yet deeply unsettling — and Over The Frontier showcases her unique ability to splice the domestic with the apocalyptic. The novel stands as a prescient examination of fascism, feminine autonomy, and the seductive pull of destruction, written on the very eve of World War II. Readers who surrender to Pompey's unreliable, mesmerising voice will find themselves, like her, unable to say precisely when the solid ground of reality dissolved beneath their feet.
Author: Stevie Smith
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What begins as a wry, introspective comedy of manners transforms, with startling and dreamlike velocity, into something far darker and more haunting — this is the singular achievement of Stevie Smith's Over The Frontier. The novel follows Pompey Casmilus, the sharp-tongued and fiercely independent heroine first introduced in Smith's debut Novel on Yellow Paper, as her witty, digressive meditations on love, identity, and modern womanhood give way to a sinister journey across a mysterious, war-shadowed frontier into a world of violence, moral ambiguity, and psychological unease. Smith's prose is unlike anything else in twentieth-century British literature — conversational yet profound, comic yet deeply unsettling — and Over The Frontier showcases her unique ability to splice the domestic with the apocalyptic. The novel stands as a prescient examination of fascism, feminine autonomy, and the seductive pull of destruction, written on the very eve of World War II. Readers who surrender to Pompey's unreliable, mesmerising voice will find themselves, like her, unable to say precisely when the solid ground of reality dissolved beneath their feet.