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The Vet's Daughter

Barbara Comyns
3.90/5 (2451 ratings)
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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.
Format:
Pages:
152 pages
Publication:
2003
Publisher:
New York Review Books
Edition:
NYRB Classics
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1590170296
ISBN13:
9781590170298
kindle Asin:
B00GU2U3SG

The Vet's Daughter

Barbara Comyns
3.90/5 (2451 ratings)
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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.
Format:
Pages:
152 pages
Publication:
2003
Publisher:
New York Review Books
Edition:
NYRB Classics
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1590170296
ISBN13:
9781590170298
kindle Asin:
B00GU2U3SG

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