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In the Act begins: "As long as Helen was attending her adult education classes twice a week, everything worked out fine: Edgar could have a completely quiet house for his work, or his thinking, or whatever it was." In Rachel Ingall's blissfully deranged novella, the "whatever it was" her husband's been up to in his attic laboratory turns out to be inventing a new form of infidelity. Initially Helen, before she uncovers the truth, only gently t...

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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 do...

Mrs. Caliban ist einsam. Sie lebt in einem öden Vorort, ihr Ehemann ist untreu, ihre beste Freundin kämpft mit einem Alkoholproblem. Nur das Radio spricht mit ihr. Doch plötzlich taucht wie aus dem Nichts Larry auf, er hilft ihr hingebungsvoll und ausdauernd bei der Hausarbeit, und noch hingebungsvoller und ausdauernder beglückt er sie in allen Liebesdingen. Sie unternehmen Spritztouren mit dem Auto an den Strand. Vor ihrem Mann kann sie ihren...

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In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research... Reviewers have compared Rachel Ingalls's Mrs. Caliban to King Kong, Edgar Allan Poe's stories, the films of David Lynch, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, E.T., Richard Yate...

In this collection of five stories by a great short story writer, prototypes from the ancient world cast a shadow over our age. Each story poses the same questions: what do people really believe in, where can they put their trust, and why do they continue to hope?

A collection of four novellas: 'Third Time Lucky', 'People to People', 'Captain Hendrik's Story', and 'Inheritance'.

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Displays the craft of a quite remarkable talent. This title features tales of love, terror, betrayal and grief, which others would spin out for hundreds of pages, are given the occluded force of poetry.

Displays the craft of a quite remarkable talent. This title features tales of love, terror, betrayal and grief, which others would spin out for hundreds of pages, are given the occluded force of poetry.

His wasn't a world war. It was one of the smaller wars, but just as deadly as any other. "Wars are like snakes, " his first commanding officer said to him. "Some of the little ones " "can be even worse than the monsters." --from "Veterans" Franklin fears his family is in danger from a fellow veteran he saved during the war. A young boy entranced by opera despite being born into the rock-and-roll generation finds himself playing the lead roll ...

The fiction of Rachel Ingalls has haunted me for years. The plots are dramatic, even exaggerated, but the books are quiet and short. The language is plain but curious. I've gathered here three works of hers. Two of these are frightening and one less so, although I sometimes change my mind about which one that is. -from the Introduction by Daniel Handler Daniel Handler assembled this collection from Rachel Ingalls' wide selection of novella...

Academic anthropologist Stan Binstead is headed off to East Africa on sabbatical. Adulterous by nature, he's irked when his wife Millie asks to accompany him. But as the couple pass through London the balance of power in their marriage begins, strangely, to shift - a transformation that becomes yet more pronounced on safari.