Black Diamond
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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".
Rachel Ingalls je autorkou viacerých fiktívnych diel, ktoré sú známe svojím jedinečným pohľadom na každodenný život a medzľudské vzťahy. Jej štýl sa vyznačuje subtílnou psychologickou hĺbkou a často skúma nepokojné napätie pod povrchom zdanlivo normálnych situácií. Ingalls majstrovsky odhaľuje zložitosť ľudskej povahy a vnáša do svojich príbehov nečakané zvraty, ktoré čitateľov nútia k zamysleniu. Jej diela sú cenené pre svoju prenikavosť a schopnosť zachytiť znepokojujúce aspekty ľudskej skúsenosti.






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".
Deals with incest and insanity, curtailed feminine social spheres and the Other; horrific violence and a palpable sadness saturate the pages. This title includes two story collections, Three of a Kind and The End of Tragedy.
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.
Jede Seite ist originell und faszinierend. Halten Sie sich einen Samstag frei und lesen sie die Geschichte in einem Rutsch! Harper's Magazine Die Smalltalk- Geheimwaffe jeder Cocktailparty wird in dieser 'Mrs.?Calibans Geheimnis' sein, eine ebenso eigenartige wie wunderbare Novelle. NPR
Ce recueil réunit quatre textes de Rachel Ingalls: I See a Long Journey, Inheritance, People to People et Third Time Lucky.