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02089aam a2200337 i 4500 001 E7AD29D435B011EEA7DDB3DB4DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230808010040 008 230203t20231987nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023001747 020 $a 0811232042 020 $a 9780811232043 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GCmBT $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3559.N38 $b I6 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20230203 100 1 $a Ingalls, Rachel, $e author. 245 10 $a IN THE ACT / $c Rachel Ingalls. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b New Directions Books, $c 2023. 300 $a 61 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Storybook ND 500 $a 2023/07/04 520 $a "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 Ingalls's blissfully derangednovella, 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 beyondIngalls's usual stratosphere"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Housewives $v Fiction. $9 88494 650 0 $a Attics $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Secrecy $v Fiction. $9 90759 655 7 $a Black humor. $2 lcgft $9 121638 655 7 $a Novellas. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Storybook ND. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230808010124.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E7AD29D435B011EEA7DDB3DB4DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search