Barbara Comyns: The Vets Daughter
- Yhteenveto
- Kategoria: muu, ei luokiteltu, alakategoria: muu, ei luokiteltu
- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: New York Review of Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781590170298
- Lisätiedot
- Katseltu: 50 krt
- Suosituksia: 0 kpl
Kuvaus (115 sanaa, lukemiseen kuluu n. minuutti)
The Vets Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes up with a crass, needling woman who tries to refashion Alice in her own image. And yet as Alice retreats ever deeper into a dream world, she discovers an extraordinary secret power of her own. Harrowing and haunting, like an unexpected cross between Flannery O'Connor and Stephen King, The Vets Daughter is a story of outraged innocence that culminates in a scene of appalling triumph.