Mrs. Caliban / Rachel Ingalls ; with an introduction by Rivka Galchen.

New York : New Directions, 2017.

©1983

xii, 111 pages ; 21 cm.

BEIN New Directions 1755: Number line on title page verso indicates first printing: "2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1". Paperbound.

In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research ... Reviewers have compared Rachel Ingalls's Mrs. Caliban to King Kong, Edgar Allan Poe's stories, the films of David Lynch, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, E.T., Richard Yates's domestic realism, B-horror movies, and the fairy tales of Angela Carter--how such a short novel could contain all of these disparate elements is a testament to its startling and singular charm.

English

July 23, 2018