| Wish Her Safe at Home Contributor(s): Benatar, Stephen (Author), Carey, John (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 159017335X ISBN-13: 9781590173350 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2010 Annotation: Who hasn't imagined winning the lottery or coming into an inheritance? Wouldn't it be great to chuck your old workaday life and live it up somewhere else? At the start of "Wish Her Safe at Home," Rachel Waring seems to be experiencing a dream come true: out of nowhere, her great-aunt leaves her a mansion--and she moves in without delay. Gone is Rachel's administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. From now on she will be a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, and expression. She plants a garden, takes up writing, and impresses everyone she meets with her extraordinary optimism. But as we watch Rachel singing and joking away her days, we begin to wonder if she might be taking her transformation just a bit too far. In "Wish Her Safe at Home," Stephen Benatar has created a masterpiece of humor and horror. In the words of "The Times Literary Supplement," Rachel is "Scarlett O'Hara, Blanche DuBois, Snow White, and Miss Havisham all rolled into one." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009036316 |
| Series: New York Review Books (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.58" W x 8.14" (0.60 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city--and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, expression, and love. Once installed in her new quarters, Rachel plants a garden, takes up writing, and impresses everyone she meets with her extraordinary optimism. But as Rachel sings and jokes the days away, her new neighbors begin to wonder if she might be taking her transformation just a bit too far. In Wish Her Safe at Home, Stephen Benatar finds humor and horror in the shifting region between elation and mania. His heroine could be the next-door neighbor of the Beales of Grey Gardens or a sister to Jane Gardam's oddball protagonists, but she has an ebullient charm all her own. |