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 tries to assert her right to be in her own home. But one
morning, grapefruit is the last straw: "He read through his
newspaper conscientiously, withdrawing his attention from it for
only a few seconds to tell her that she hadn't cut all the segments
entirely free in his grapefruit-he'd hit exactly four that were
still attached. She knew, he said, how that kind of thing annoyed
him." While Edgar keeps his lab locked, Helen secretly has a key,
and what she finds in the attic shocks her into action and propels
In the Act into heights of madcap black comedy even beyond
Ingalls's usual stratosphere.
General
Imprint: |
New Directions Publishing Corporation
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Authors: |
Rachel Ingalls
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
64 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8112-3204-3 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-8112-3204-2 |
Barcode: |
9780811232043 |
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