The Vet's Daughter (Paperback)

"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.

General

Imprint:	The New York Review Of Books, Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2003
First published:	April 2003
Authors:	Barbara Comyns
Introduction by:	Kathryn Davis
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	133
ISBN-13:	978-1-59017-029-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-59017-029-6
Barcode:	9781590170298

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