Mrs Caliban 1982
By Rachel Ingalls, Marta Hernández Pibernat, Zahara Méndez Hernández, Zahara Méndez Hernández, Zahara Méndez Hernández, Zahara Méndez Hernández
- Marriage, Adultery, Fiction, Fiction, psychological
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 Yates's domestic realism, B-horror movies, and the fairy tales of Angela Carter--how such a short novel could contain all of these disparate elements is a testament to its startling and singular charm.
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- Author
- Rachel Ingalls, Marta Hernández Pibernat, Zahara Méndez Hernández, Zahara Méndez Hernández, Zahara Méndez Hernández, Zahara Méndez Hernández
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- Laurel, Harvard Common Press, New Directions
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780876451120
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