The Vet's Daughter
A Literary Fiction, Classics, Gothic book. When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies....
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.
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- Pages: 190 pages
- ISBN: 9780385271905 / 385271905
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Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone. Barbara Comyns, The Vet's Daughter // Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowing into my ears.' But the humble, common tears had relieved me[...] Barbara Comyns, The Vet's Daughter // It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church. Barbara Comyns, The Vet's Daughter //
The day was nearly over and it was like most of the days I could remember: all overshadowed by my father and cleaning the cats' cages and the smell of cabbages, escaping gas and my father's scent. There were moments of peace, and sometimes sunlight outside. It was like that all of the time.Alice's mother sides with the walls, her voice... Llegu a the Vet's Daughter de la mejor manera a la que se puede llegar a un libro: sin saber nada de l y gracias a la recomendacin de una librera que adora su trabajo. Y aunque al principio me cost un poco entrar en la dinmica de la novela, rpidamente me acostumbr y pude disfrutar de una narradora muy peculiar que nos introduce en un... Meh. Humorous without enough humor to call it funny, grotesque but not as much as her more powerful Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, this book is mostly just underwhelming. Start with Who Was Changed, and maybe skip this. It must be damn hard to market this book, because 3/4 of it is your standard novel of oppression that is frankly,...
