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Lockwood
[lok-wood]
noun
Belva Ann Bennett 1830–1917, U.S. lawyer and women's-rights activist.
Example Sentences
The narrator of Patricia Lockwood’s novel comes mentally unstuck during the Covid-19 pandemic.
As she did in the novel “No One Is Talking About This,” Ms. Lockwood deploys a wildly comic voice to explore big questions about suffering and selfhood.
Experimental authors continue to push beyond the boundaries of American realism — Ed Park, Jane Alison and Mark Z. Danielewski come to mind — and at her best Lockwood plays with harmony and dissonance in unexpected, exhilarating ways.
From chapter to chapter, Lockwood deploys an associative strategy: anecdotes, memories and social commentary string together, rich and kinetic if confusing.
Lockwood depicts the trajectory of illness through the kind of surrealism that sparked Plath’s “Ariel”; so much depends on how well you absorb the loony-tune Lockwood croons.
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