Description

A journalist’s attempt to outrun emotional entanglement becomes a journey through shifting perceptions, where memory, observation, and dread blur into one another. In *Pitch Dark*, Kate Ennis travels to Ireland seeking clarity and a new start, only to find her trip turning sinister and absurd as her reflections on love, commitment, and self-knowledge keep colliding with what she sees. Renata Adler’s distinctive, razor-edged style—part reportage, part aphorism—builds a narrative that moves by vignettes and thought rather than conventional plot beats. The novel explores themes of uncertainty, the unreliability of experience, and the uneasy ways politics and personal life can darken the same landscape.

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Pitch Dark

Renata Adler

paperback

J. Curley

Published Jan 1, 1983

255 pages

ISBN: 9780893407773

available

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First Published

1983

Language

eng

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