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Author:

Comyns, Barbara, 1907-1992.

Title:

The vet's daughter / Barbara Comyns ; foreword by Kathryn Davis.

Publisher:

New York Review Books,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xvi, 133 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Young women--Fiction.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.
Jeunes femmes--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Familles inadaptées--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Pères et filles--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Dysfunctional families.
Fathers and daughters.
Young women.
England--London.
Young women--Fiction.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Summary:

"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"--Publisher's description.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

ISBN:

9781590170298
1590170296

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51306911

LCCN:

2002155913

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)