The Vet's Daughter
Download or Read eBook The Vet's Daughter PDF written by Barbara Comyns and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Barbara Comyns |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2003-04-30 |
| ISBN-10 | : 1590170296 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9781590170298 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Vet's Daughter by : Barbara Comyns
Book excerpt: 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.
