No Love Lost (eBook)

Rachel Ingalls (Autor)

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2023 | 1. Auflage
432 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-37659-9 (ISBN)

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Introduced by Patricia Lockwood: Gothic tales from the mistress of the weird behind frogman-romance Mrs Caliban for fans of Shirley Jackson, Lucia Berlin and Patricia Highsmith. 'Wonderful.' Margaret Atwood 'Genius.' Patricia Lockwood 'Remarkable.' Joseph Heller 'Perfect.' Max Porter ''Immensely skillful'. Ursula K. Le Guin 'Tender, erotic, singular.' Carmen Maria Machado 'Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.' Marlon James 'One of the greatest short story writers we have.' The Times 'You are in masterly hands as Ingalls lures you into a swamp of violence and magic.' Sunday Times After a one-night-stand with the Angel Gabriel, a monk is transformed into a pregnant woman. Lost in the fog, two visitors are lured into a ruined candlelit mansion. A wife confiscates her husband's homemade sex doll, only to demand her own. Great-aunts warn of the deadly skin of the pearlkillers. Rachel Ingalls' incomparable novellas are masterpieces: surrealist, subversive, tragicomic. Prepare to meet what lurks beneath . 'Macabre, fantastic and haunting . . . One of the most brilliant practitioners of American Gothic since Poe . . . Read her at your peril.' Independent 'Fables whose unadorned sentences belie their irreducible strangeness . . . In her vision of intimacy and interdependence, you're simply not safe until everybody else is dead . . . Brilliant.' New Yorker 'Resists definition . . . Her work combines subtlety and horror, magic and stark realism, Greek tragedy and happily-ever-afters . . . Rare and fine. ' Guardian

Rachel Ingalls was born in Boston in 1940. She spent time in Germany before studying at Radcliffe College, and moved to England in 1965, where she lived for the rest of her life. Her debut novel, Theft (1970), won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and her novella Mrs Caliban (1982) was named one of the 20 best American novels since World War Two by the British Book Marketing Council. Over half a century, Ingalls wrote 11 story collections and novellas - all published by Faber - to great acclaim, but remains relatively unknown. She died in 2019 after a revival of interest in her work.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2023
• Einführung: Patricia Lockwood
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Dark Tales Natalia Ginzburg Little Virtues Family Lexicon Zadie Smith A Good Man is Hard to Find Wise Blood • Edgar Allen Poe Carol The Talented Mr Ripley Donna Tartt Mary Gaitskill Bad Behaviour This is Pleasure Lost Cat Veronica • Helen Oyeyemi Joy Williams A Manual for Cleaning Women Sarah Hall Sudden Traveller Madame Zero Tessa Hadley • In the Dream House Her Body and Other Parties Gothic Marlon James Short Stories John Cheever • Maggie O'Farrell Lucia Berlin Shirley Jackson Flannery O'Connor Alice Munro Lorrie Moore The Lottery • Nicole Flattery Alice Munro Grace Paley Lydia Davis Joyce Carol Oates Mrs Caliban Carmen Maria Machado • We Have Always Lived in the Castle Patricia Highsmith Sylvia Plath Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
• ISBN-10: 0-571-37659-2 / 0571376592
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-37659-9 / 9780571376599