6 Novels by Rachel Ingalls
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Overview: Rachel Ingalls grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She held various jobs, from theatre dresser and librarian to publisher’s reader. She was a confirmed radio and film addict and started living in London in 1965. She authored several works of fiction—most notably Mrs. Caliban—published in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Days Like Today
In this collection of five stories by a great short story writer, prototypes from the ancient world cast a shadow over our age. Cupid and Psyche, Penelope, Oedipus, Icarus and Odysseus inhabit the consciousness of characters who wrestle with betrayal, sacrifice, family conflict and war. Each story poses the same questions: what do people really believe in, where can they put their trust, and why do they continue to hope? Days Like Today is a stunning volume by a true artist and a quite remarkable talent.
Binstead’s Safari
After getting a haircut in London and a few new outfits (“she bought two pairs of shoes and began to enjoy herself”), Millie, the neglected American wife of an academic pill, is transformed—and, upon arrival in Africa, falls into the perfect affair. Binstead’s Safari unfolds the fractured fairy tale of the rebirth of a drab, insecure woman as a fiercely alive, fearless beauty. “Life was too short to waste time trying to find excuses for not doing the things you really wanted to do,” Millie realizes, helping herself to love and joy. The husband is astonished—everyone adores the new Millie. She can’t put a foot wrong, and as they move deeper into Africa in search of lion myths for his book, “excitement and pleasure carried her upwards as on a tide.” Mysteries abound, but in the hands of Rachel Ingalls, the ultimate master of the curveball, Millie’s resurrection seems perfectly natural: caterpillar to butterfly.
“Only now had she found her life”—and also her destiny, which may, this being Ingalls, take the form of a Lion God.
Black Diamond
This collection of stories is from the author of "Theft", "The Man Who Was Left Behind", "Mrs Caliban", "Three of a Kind", "The Pearkillers" and "The End of Tragedy".
The Man Who Was Left Behind
The Man Who Was Left Behind takes place in the United States and has for its central character a retired Southern lawyer whose entire family has been destroyed. It is the study of a man whose grief drives him to haunt the bars, parks, and laundromats of the town where he used to be a respected citizen, and who eventually suffers a major dislocation of his sense of time.
The Pearlkillers
Though the action is death-ridden and the landscape dour, in each of these four Gothic tales by the author of Mrs. Caliban, it is the chill voice of the narrator that quickens the pulse. In "Third Time Lucky," Lily, whose first two husbands were killed in Vietnam, listlessly rejects all suitors, lavishing her energy on her passion for ancient Egypt. When Don persists in courting her and promises a honeymoon there, she masters her distaste and marries him, presaging another tragedy. The logic of murder is relentlessly upheld in "People to People," as one man kills his four closest friends in order to escape detection for a murder the five had witlessly committed years before. Differing in mood yet maintaining the same distance, the title story deals in live ghosts, the aged, rich great-aunts of Carla, who listens helplessly to tales of their titled cousins, plunderers of the family treasure, and of "pearlkillers," people whose deadly skin causes pearls to shrivel and turn brown. Finally, "Captain Hendrik’s Story" unites all the forces doomed journey, women-laced household, deception and murder in Anders Hendrik’s recounting of what happened during a voyage to the New World and the record as corrected by a man who was part of the crew. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of these chilling tales is the doom that pervades them from the first sentence.
Theft
Theft is a parable-parallel taking place in some dehumanizing, militarized society where Seth, a starving working man, is jailed for stealing a loaf of bread. In prison with him is a manic-messiah, a wife-killer, some affluent youngsters doing their ‘mental slumming’ via protest, and his protective, smarter brother-in-law
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