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The Vet's Daughter

The Vet's Daughter

Comyns, Barbara
Davis, Kathryn

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Series: New York Review Books Classics

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ISBN10: 1590170296
ISBN13: 9781590170298
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Apr 30 2003
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.02 Depth: 8.12
Language: English
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.

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