Capital, Volume One
Allen & Unwin, $16.95 pb, 228 pp
Fiction
Comic Bleakness
by Brenda Walker •
The point of return in this highly moveable associative novel is the London Underground, not as an instance of efficiency or even the most modest and individual progression, but rather as a static enclosure where creatures and people are delayed, starved, balked, pained by the straps or handles of their baggage and, most overwhelmingly, alone.
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