Compact yet capacious, the novel wonders at all the ways we can desire and destroy one another. Rachel Ingalls has created a tight, intriguing portrait of a woman's escape from unacceptable reality and presented an account of derangement so matter-of- fact, so ordinary and at the same time so bizarre, that through her words we experience new insight.īy marrying domestic realism with the literature of the bizarre, Ingalls brings tenderness to the monstrous and renders the recognizable utterly weird. Like Poe, Rachel Ingalls is more than a master storyteller: She is also a superb artist. And just as Poe's craft was exactly suited to the conventions of the short story form, so Ingalls' vision is exactly suited to the length and scope of the novella. In her best work, Ingalls is as monochromatic as Edgar Allan Poe, going straight to her target with the same ease and surety as an arrow skims to its bull's-eye. Tales of love, terror, betrayal and grief, which others would spin out for hundreds of pages, are given the occluded force of poetry. Le GuinĮvery volume Rachel Ingalls has written displays the craft of a quite remarkable talent. Ingalls is an experienced writer of novels and stories, and her perfor-mances are immensely skillful, reminiscent of the best film thrillers.-Ursula K. The love story is a delight, the social commentary sharp, the writing funny and fun-and yet the sorrow, even bitterness, at the core of this book about our perfidious species is inescapable and profound. This is our pick for feminist social satire that's deliciously weird.-Estelle Tang'27 Best New Fall Books' () But when the creature walks through her door, he awakens something new in her. In this reissue of Rachel Ingalls' 1982 novel, housewife Dorothy hears on the radio that a potentially dangerous monster has just escaped a research facility. It's not just Disney that can ruminate on romance between a beauty and a beast.

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