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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Comyns, Barbara, 1907-1992.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Dysfunctional families--Fiction.

Dysfunctional families.

Fathers and daughters--Fiction.

Fathers and daughters.

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 133 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, 2003.

Summary:

Barbara Comynss novel is a work of gutteral realism with a visionary edge. A veterinarian inhabits a sinister London suburb with his daughter, Alice, and invalid wife, both of whom he treats with savage brutality. When his wife dies, he takes up with his new housekeeper, a crass and abusive woman, leading Alice to retreat deep into herself. Soon, however, Alice discovers she has extraordinary powers. This powerful English novel about outraged innocence is equally a work of outrageous imagination. The Vets Daughter was serialized and dramatized by BBC radio and, in 1978, turned into a musical called The Clapham Wonder. The strange offbeat talent of Miss Comyns [has] never ... been more impressively exercised than in The Vets Daughter. Graham Greene

ISBN:

1590170296

OCLC:

51306911