The Vet's Daughter
by Barbara Comyns
- 2 Ratings
- 14 Want to read
- 0 Currently reading
- 5 Have read
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.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Subjects
Fiction, British fiction| Edition | Availability |
|---|---|
1
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Published in
New York, USA
Edition Notes
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?Lists
See All-
nyrb
from Diane Phillips
-
Want To Read
from ReadEveryday
-
Jocelyn
from jocelyn1941
-
to read;
from Cecilia Archer
-
Tbr
from jocelyn1941
| February 14, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | remove fake subjects |
| February 19, 2019 | Edited by Silverina | Edited without comment. |
| February 19, 2019 | Edited by Silverina | Added new cover |
| February 10, 2011 | Edited by EdwardBot | add lending subjects |
| December 10, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |