# Byssus

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- Book: [Byssus](https://www.bookquiver.com/jen-hadfield/byssus) ([Byssus.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jen-hadfield/byssus.md))
- Authors: [Jen Hadfield](https://www.bookquiver.com/jen-hadfield)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-14-4724-110-2
- Pages: 80
- Published: 2014-02-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Throughout Byssus. . . there is something magical and incantatory in the way she cherished language at the level of the name, as if utterance itself might be a way of dwelling in the real and making oneself at home there.