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I loved Mrs. Caliban. So deft and austere in its prose, so drolly casual in its fantasy...— John Updike
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Rachel Ingalls is an American-born author who has lived in the UK since 1965. She is the author of the novels Mrs. Caliban and Binstead’s Safari as well as numerous novellas and short stories.
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“A masterpiece and totally off the wall.”
- Electric Literature
“It's not just Disney that can ruminate on romance between a beauty and a beast. In this reissue of Rachel Ingalls' 1982 novel, housewife Dorothy hears on the radio that a potentially dangerous monster has just escaped a research facility. But when the creature walks through her door, he awakens something new in her. This is our pick for feminist social satire that's deliciously weird.”
- Estelle Tang, Elle
“Every volume Rachel Ingalls has written displays the craft of a quite remarkable talent. Tales of love, terror, betrayal and grief, which others would spin out for hundreds of pages, are given the occluded force of poetry.”
- Independent
“The love story is a delight, the social commentary sharp, the writing funny and fun―and yet the sorrow, even bitterness, at the core of this book about our perfidious species is inescapable and profound.”
- Kirkus (starred review)
“In her best work, Ingalls is as monochromatic as Edgar Allan Poe, going straight to her target with the same ease and surety as an arrow skims to its bull's-eye... And just as Poe's craft was exactly suited to the conventions of the short story form, so Ingalls' vision is exactly suited to the length and scope of the novella... Like Poe, Rachel Ingalls is more than a master storyteller: She is also a superb artist.”
- Los Angeles Times
“Ms. Ingalls is an experienced writer of novels and stories, and her perfor-mances are immensely skillful, reminiscent of the best film thrillers.”
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The New York Times
“Rachel Ingalls has created a tight, intriguing portrait of a woman's escape from unacceptable reality and presented an account of derangement so matter-of- fact, so ordinary and at the same time so bizarre, that through her words we experience new insight.”
- The New York Times Book Review
“As deranged as the whole thing is, Ingalls’s prose, strikingly austere, taps into a profound sadness, too: Is Mrs. Caliban a work of fantasy or are we inhabiting the psyche of a woman unhinged? ...Begs to be read over and over again.”
- The Paris Review
“Mrs. Caliban is one of my favorite novels in the world.”
- Daniel Handler
“I loved Mrs. Caliban. So deft and austere in its prose, so drolly casual in its fantasy, but opening up into a deep female sadness that makes us stare. An impeccable parable, beautifully written from first paragraph to last.”
- John Updike
- Electric Literature
“It's not just Disney that can ruminate on romance between a beauty and a beast. In this reissue of Rachel Ingalls' 1982 novel, housewife Dorothy hears on the radio that a potentially dangerous monster has just escaped a research facility. But when the creature walks through her door, he awakens something new in her. This is our pick for feminist social satire that's deliciously weird.”
- Estelle Tang, Elle
“Every volume Rachel Ingalls has written displays the craft of a quite remarkable talent. Tales of love, terror, betrayal and grief, which others would spin out for hundreds of pages, are given the occluded force of poetry.”
- Independent
“The love story is a delight, the social commentary sharp, the writing funny and fun―and yet the sorrow, even bitterness, at the core of this book about our perfidious species is inescapable and profound.”
- Kirkus (starred review)
“In her best work, Ingalls is as monochromatic as Edgar Allan Poe, going straight to her target with the same ease and surety as an arrow skims to its bull's-eye... And just as Poe's craft was exactly suited to the conventions of the short story form, so Ingalls' vision is exactly suited to the length and scope of the novella... Like Poe, Rachel Ingalls is more than a master storyteller: She is also a superb artist.”
- Los Angeles Times
“Ms. Ingalls is an experienced writer of novels and stories, and her perfor-mances are immensely skillful, reminiscent of the best film thrillers.”
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The New York Times
“Rachel Ingalls has created a tight, intriguing portrait of a woman's escape from unacceptable reality and presented an account of derangement so matter-of- fact, so ordinary and at the same time so bizarre, that through her words we experience new insight.”
- The New York Times Book Review
“As deranged as the whole thing is, Ingalls’s prose, strikingly austere, taps into a profound sadness, too: Is Mrs. Caliban a work of fantasy or are we inhabiting the psyche of a woman unhinged? ...Begs to be read over and over again.”
- The Paris Review
“Mrs. Caliban is one of my favorite novels in the world.”
- Daniel Handler
“I loved Mrs. Caliban. So deft and austere in its prose, so drolly casual in its fantasy, but opening up into a deep female sadness that makes us stare. An impeccable parable, beautifully written from first paragraph to last.”
- John Updike
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- PublisherFaber And Faber
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0571118267
- ISBN 13 9780571118267
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages129
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Book Description Octavo, boards. First edition. "Dorothy, a failed mother and neglected, wife, secretly takes in Larry, an anthropoid amphibian who has escaped from the institute for Oceanographic Research and is being sought for the deaths of two of his keepers . A sensitive portrait of alienation and disaffection with darkly fantastic overtones." - Stefan Dziemianowicz in Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-176. "Perhaps Ingalls' finest accomplishment in the novel is the unflappable gentleness of her tone, which records supernatural surprise and flaming horror simply, almost tranquilly." - Rob Latham, Necrofile: The Review of Horror Literature #7 (1993), p. 3. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 499. Remainder mark on front paste-down, a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#107125). Seller Inventory # 107125
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Book Description Octavo, boards. First edition. "Dorothy, a failed mother and neglected, wife, secretly takes in Larry, an anthropoid amphibian who has escaped from the institute for Oceanographic Research and is being sought for the deaths of two of his keepers . A sensitive portrait of alienation and disaffection with darkly fantastic overtones." - Stefan Dziemianowicz in Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-176. "Perhaps Ingalls' finest accomplishment in the novel is the unflappable gentleness of her tone, which records supernatural surprise and flaming horror simply, almost tranquilly." - Rob Latham, Necrofile: The Review of Horror Literature #7 (1993), p. 3. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 499. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#167776). Seller Inventory # 167776
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