The Wood of Suicides
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| Author | Laura Elizabeth Woollett |
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| Language | English |
| Published | 2014 (The Permanent Press) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 192 pp |
| ISBN | 978-1-57962-350-0 |
The Wood of Suicides is a 2014 debut novel by Australian writer Laura Elizabeth Woollett. It centers on a 17-year-old girl's affair with her English teacher, after her father commits suicide.
Literary references
[edit]The Wood of Suicides takes its title from Canto XIII of Dante's Inferno, which describes a tortured wood where suicides are encased in bark. It also borrows heavily from the myth of Apollo and Daphne, referencing it explicitly at several points.
Reception
[edit]The Wood of Suicides has received mixed to positive reviews. Kirkus Reviews wrote "an anxious, uneasy, and despondent anti-romance novel."[1] Publishers Weekly wrote "The novel successfully creates a disturbing, ethically ambiguous effect, but the prose, though true to the voice of a lovelorn, troubled teenager, feels overwrought."[2]
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