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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Quarter-bound brown cloth on gray boards, 141pp. Published in Great Britain under title: "Three of a Kind" Contents: "I See a Long Journey, " "On Ice, " and "Blessed Art Thou."-Attractive copy with mylar cover added to dustjacket.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper; Book and dustwrapper show slight rubbing of spine/panels, slight bumping of panel corners/spine ends. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Matt Mahunn (Jacket photograph) and Caroline Forbe. Very good in Very good jacket. 141, [3] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Elinor Hopkins from Rachel with happy memories of Lynchburg. August 20, 1987. DJ is price clipped. Rachel Ingalls bewitching brew of humor and fantasy is an intoxicating combination whose effects linger long after the final page. Enter the world of Rachel Ingalls at your own risk, and come away amused, amazed, and delighted. Her skillful tricks to provide three of those memorable endings which, initially unpredictable, seem with hindsight to have been signposted all along. The subtle, funny, and scary prose of Rachel Ingalls has beguiled English readers for over a decade. Her Novel Mrs. Caliban was named one of the twenty great American postwar novels by the British Book Marketing Council. Now I See a Long Journey gives the American reader the opportunity to relish Ingalls at her best. These three novellas take ordinary people in commonplace situations and magically turn them upside down. A Woman who has married into a rich and famous family takes a long-awaited vacation with her husband and his bodyguard, a college student goes on a skiing vacation with her German boyfriend, a California monk has a visit from the Angel Gabriel. And astonishing events ensue. "Her laconic prose lures the matter-of-fact into magic", writes The Times of London. Rachel Holmes Ingalls (13 May 1940-6 March 2019) was an American-born author who had lived in the United Kingdom from 1965 onwards. She won the 1970 Authors' Club First Novel Award for Theft. Her novella Mrs. Caliban was published in 1982, and her book of short stories Times Like These in 2005. Ingalls's short story "Last Act: The Madhouse" inspired the story of the character Jean in the 1997 film Chinese Box by Wayne Wang. Ingalls' reputation is characterized by deep admiration and acclaim but also a certain degree of obscurity. She has referred to her limited commercial success as being due to the ''very odd, unsalable length" of her books, which tend to be story collections or novellas. She was awarded the Authors' Club First Novel Award for her book Theft. In 1986 the British Book Marketing Council named the hitherto little known Mrs Caliban as one of the 20 greatest American novels since World War II, sparking wider interest in both book and writer. Earlier praise for Mrs Caliban came from John Updike. The writer Daniel Handler is an advocate of Ingalls' work. Derived from a Kirkus review: Each of these mid-length dramas, conventionally and skillfully narrated, has its way of capturing the reader firmly, then of providing endings that will please mainly those who love a semi mysterious twist. The young Flora, in "I See a Long Journey, " marries a man from a large, established, and inestimably wealthy family; older than she, he is "the most important of the heirs." On a holiday journey to the Orient, accompanied only by the husband's highly trained bodyguard, Flora is attacked at gunpoint by would-be kidnappers; and, during the abduction, the bodyguard chooses to shoot Flora, considering her expendable, rather than risking the loss of the husband and heir. "On Ice" is the tale of a young American woman who finds herself, at end (because she knows too much), imprisoned for life in an Alpine hotel by a group of bridge-playing senior citizens who, to keep their own families from preying on their money and lives, have "pretended" to die and are now hiding with their wealth. And "Blessed Art Thou, " most surreal of the three, is the story of a monk who, after an intimate "visitation" from the angel Gabriel, turns into a woman, becomes pregnant, and then, just before the miraculous birth (the prospect of which has caused great disarray in the monastery both religious and sexual) dies in water and a brightness of light. Skilled prime-time entertainment, capable in every detail, for readers who like to think.
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Good jacket. Good in Good unclipped dust jacket. jacket has some wear, discoloration and water damage to top egde of back, still in presentable condition. Lightly used with tanning of pages, NO markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
