No Love Lost: The Selected Novellas of Rachel Ingalls
Mrs Caliban. St George and the Nightclub. The Man Who Was Left Behind
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Rachel Ingalls is de auteur van verschillende fictieve werken, bekend om haar unieke kijk op het dagelijks leven en interpersoonlijke relaties. Haar stijl wordt gekenmerkt door subtiele psychologische diepgang, waarbij vaak de onrustige spanning onder de oppervlakte van schijnbaar normale situaties wordt onderzocht. Ingalls onthult meesterlijk de complexiteit van de menselijke natuur en introduceert onverwachte wendingen die lezers tot nadenken stemmen. Haar geschriften worden gewaardeerd om hun inzicht en hun vermogen om de verontrustende aspecten van de menselijke ervaring vast te leggen.






Mrs Caliban. St George and the Nightclub. The Man Who Was Left Behind
This collection of stories is from the author of "Theft", "The Man Who Was Left Behind", "Mrs Caliban", "Three of a Kind", "The Pearkillers" and "The End of Tragedy".
Jede Seite ist originell und faszinierend. Halten Sie sich einen Samstag frei und lesen sie die Geschichte in einem Rutsch! Harper's Magazine Die Smalltalk- Geheimwaffe jeder Cocktailparty wird in dieser 'Mrs.?Calibans Geheimnis' sein, eine ebenso eigenartige wie wunderbare Novelle. NPR
Ce recueil réunit quatre textes de Rachel Ingalls: I See a Long Journey, Inheritance, People to People et Third Time Lucky.
After getting a haircut in London and a few new outfits (“she bought two pairs of shoes and began to enjoy herself”), Millie, the neglected American wife of an academic pill, is transformed—and, upon arrival in Africa, falls into the perfect affair. Binstead’s Safari unfolds the fractured fairy tale of the rebirth of a drab, insecure woman as a fiercely alive, fearless beauty. “Life was too short to waste time trying to find excuses for not doing the things you really wanted to do,” Millie realizes, helping herself to love and joy. The husband is astonished—everyone adores the new Millie. She can’t put a foot wrong, and as they move deeper into Africa in search of lion myths for his book, “excitement and pleasure carried her upwards as on a tide.” Mysteries abound, but in the hands of Rachel Ingalls, the ultimate master of the curveball, Millie’s resurrection seems perfectly natural: caterpillar to butterfly. “Only now had she found her life”—and also her destiny, which may, this being Ingalls, take the form of a Lion God.
Deals with incest and insanity, curtailed feminine social spheres and the Other; horrific violence and a palpable sadness saturate the pages. This title includes two story collections, Three of a Kind and The End of Tragedy.