| The Vet's Daughter Contributor(s): Comyns, Barbara (Author), Davis, Kathryn (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590170296 ISBN-13: 9781590170298 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2003 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002155913 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.02" W x 8.12" (0.41 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |