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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Comyns, Barbara; Davis, Kathryn
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| Publisher: |
NYRB Classics
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| Date: |
4/30/2003
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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The Vet's 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 Vet's Daughter is a story of outraged innocence that culminates in a scene of appalling triumph.
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