RACHEL INGALLS (Mrs Caliban)—Pearlkillers—PB—"Intense, pure"

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A VG+ / UNREAD Trade Paperback (RARE) of: • “THE PEARLKILLERS: FOUR NOVELLAS” (A Touchstone Book / Simon and Schuster, 1988) (Trade Paperback, First Edition Thus) • BY RACHEL INGALLS, author of “MRS. CALIBAN” • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “Refined tales of violence…intense, pure…immensely skillful.”—URSULA K. LE GUIN, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “Intellectual horror stories…[that] almost all deliver a shock you don’t suspect…cool, rigorously mental.”—WALL STREET JOURNAL • “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…. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of these chilling tales is the doom that pervades them from the first sentence.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “Uncommonly good writing…. Highly regarded…for her precise and unself-consciously economical prose…INGALLS possesses a keen eye and ear for nuance.” —WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD • “Each of INGALLS’s four stories is chilled with enough foreboding to hold the reader and a final grim twist to satisfy.” —MAURICE TAYLOR, LIBRARY JOURNAL • “RACHEL INGALLS is more than a master storyteller: She is also a superb artist…. As monochromatic as EDGAR ALLAN POE.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “THE PEARLKILLERS rustles with the shrouded and cryptic. Just as the past and present interact potently in these stories, so do the fantastic and the familiar. These four stories are not just tales of destructiveness but narratives of umbrous depth.” —TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT • “This book seems shamefully overlooked, since it’s much better than most horror efforts. Literate, creepy, INGALLScreates atmosphere with the best of them.”—STEVE, GOODREADS REVIEW • “This book with four novellas is an example of a master at work. Fascinating characters, often bizarre plots, unpredictable endings.”—GENE KNAUER, GOODREADS REVIEW • ABOUT THE AUTHOR:• “Through her words, we experience new insight.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “Almost all of INGALLS’s stories evoke an atmosphere of breathless expectancy: something wonderful or horrid seems always about to happen. This tone of suspense often has a menacing quality, paying off at the last minute in appalling reversals of fortune and explosions of spectacular violence.”—ROB LATHAM, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS • “INGALLS writes fables whose unadorned sentences belie their irreducible strangeness…. In her grim yet playful fashion, INGALLS is concerned with the rules and conventions by which societies are organized, the violent machinations by which they are maintained. Like a good tragedian, she tends to heap up corpses at the end of her tales, and even in her quieter examinations of familial bonds she leaves readers to wonder, of her spouses and siblings, who might push whom off a cliff.” —LIDIJA HAAS, THE NEW YORKER • “Her razor-sharp lines cut through decorum to expose writhing mental states.”—JOYCE CAROL OATES • “Here we have an astonishing American Gothic aesthetic wedded to the English talent for understatement, the lovechild of JOHN COLLIER and JOYCE CAROL OATES…. A fabulist who writes about repressed states, she springs shocks on her readers that prove psychologically fair but unexpected, and is an original, accessible voice…. She’s rigorous, dark, shadowy, cool, and leaves a lot unsaid but not unimagined – in short, she has all the elements you need to become a cult figure. Why hasn’t she become one?”—CHRISTOPHER FOWLER, THE INDEPENDENT (UK) • “RACHEL INGALLS is a remarkable writer, able to convey, in a single phrase or line of dialogue, an entire rounded scene. Her ear for speech and its context, both inflections and gestures, is faultless.” —CAROLYN MOORHEAD, THE SPECTATOR (UK) • “RACHEL INGALLS gives us…quiet masterpieces.” —ROGER GARFITT, THE LISTENER (UK) • “RACHEL INGALLS can do no wrong. She is a master at the art of the short story/novella in the same vein as WILLIAM TREVOR’s magnificent work.”—SUE C., AMAZON REVIEW • “RACHEL INGALLS is a top magician. I love rereading her mesmerizing prose.”—JUSTIN BOG (BLOG) • ABOUT THE AUTHOR’S “MRS. CALIBAN”: • “I loved MRS. CALIBAN. So deft and austere in its prose, so drolly casual in its fantasy…but opening up into a deep female sadness that makes us stare. An impeccable parable, beautifully written from the first paragraph to last.” —JOHN UPDIKE • “I’m obsessed with MRS. CALIBAN, RACHEL INGALLS perfect, short, bizarre, heartfelt, insane 1982 novel about a woman and a lizard.” ―BRIDGET READ, VOGUE • “MRS. CALIBAN is one of my favorite novels in the world.” ―DANIEL HANDLER • “For her 1982 masterpiece, the short novel MRS. CALIBAN, INGALLS takes a B-Movie premise and pounds it into a thrilling new shape.” ―ED PARK, VILLAGE VOICE • “A perfect novel." ―RIVKA GALCHEN • “Imagine if MURIEL SPARK wrote science fiction and you’ll get close to what this book feels like: a triumph of tone, a tale of loneliness upended.” ―JOHN FREEMAN • “An unlikely literary classic. There’s the sheer entertainment factor—steamy AQUAMAN sex, anyone?―but then just underneath is a real depth, a quiet brilliance in its study of behavior and circumstance. It cuts through the noise, enlightening while also resonating, soothing in its dreamy surrealism. And isn’t that the perfect recipe for an enduring classic?” —DAVID CANFIELD, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • “Thirty-five years old, it is fresher than most things written yesterday. I wish I could say that I have always known about it. Instead I confess to the zeal of a new convert. Every one of its 125 pages is perfect, original, and arresting. Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single sitting.” —CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD, HARPER’S MAGAZINE • “MRS. CALIBAN never makes its points head-on, never strays from its intriguing Z confusions, never beats us over the head with meaning, but somehow we are moved. The book is a strange conversation overheard on a bus: sketchy, incomplete, maddening, but totally unforgettable…. 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….” —MICHAEL DORRIS, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, 1986 • “A masterpiece and totally off the wall.” —ELECTRIC LITERATURE • “A searing masterpiece.” —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • “This is our pick for feminist social satire that's deliciously weird." ―ESTELLE TANG, ELLE • “Every volume RACHEL INGALLS has written displays the craft of a quite remarkable talent. Tales of love, terror, betrayal and grief, which others would spin out for hundreds of pages, are given the occluded force of poetry.” —THE INDEPENDENT (UK) • “Peculiar but wonderful and long-overlooked....” ―JEAN ZIMMERMAN, NPR • “It is a tribute to the subtlety of the novel that it can lend itself to multiple readings…. Perhaps INGALL’s finest accomplishment in the novel is the unflappable gentleness of her tone, which records supernatural surprise and flaming horror simply, almost tranquilly. The result is paradoxically quotidian and dreamlike, like a fable or folktale.” ―ROB LATHAM, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS • “Part of the brilliance of [the book] lies in the way INGALLS captures the everyday bathos of a neglected, hard-done-by wife and then turns around to startle us with an almost festive regeneration through a relationship with an impossible creature ... this novel’s sensibility is gloriously low-key even as weirdness abounds.” —KATHERINE A. POWERS, BARNES & NOBLE REVIEW • “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." —KIRKUS REVIEWS • “A slim surrealist masterpiece…. There are many familiar things on which it draws (B-grade monster movies, suburban malaise, romance tropes), and it has been justly compared to cultural touchstones from DAVID LYNCH and RICHARD YATES to THE WIZARD OF OZ and E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL, but there is nothing else out there that is 'like' it, or even close…. Like POE, RACHEL INGALLS is more than a master storyteller: She is also a superb artist.” ―JUSTIN TAYLOR, LOS ANGELES TIMES • “A brilliant dovetailing of minimalist prose and maximalist premise.”—SAM HUBER, THE NEW INQUIRY • “INGALLS uses DOROTHY and LARRY’s strange arrangement to probe the ways we build lives together…whether it’s tragedy we linger on or the farce we laugh off – it’s something that we certainly and always remember.”—ADAM FALES, FULL STOP • “Thirty-five years old and it still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything written today.” —MARLON JAMES, AMAZON BOOK REVIEW • “INGALLS writes fables whose unadorned sentences belie their irreducible strangeness.” ―LIDIJA HAAS, THE NEW YORKER • “As deranged as the whole thing is, INGALL’s prose, strikingly austere, taps into a profound sadness, too: Is MRS. CALIBAN a work of fantasy or are we inhabiting the psyche of a woman unhinged?... Begs to be read over and over again.” ―THE PARIS REVIEW • “MRS. CALIBAN has the melancholy, bittersweet air of a romance that has come to no significant resolution.” ―JOYCE CAROL OATES • “MS. INGALLS is an experienced writer of novels and stories, and her performances are immensely skillful, reminiscent of the best film thrillers.” ―URSULA K. LE GUIN • “RACHEL INGALLS is a remarkable writer, able to convey, in a single phrase or line of dialogue, an entire rounded scene. Her ear…is faultless.” —CAROLINE MOORHEAD, THE SPECTATOR (UK) • “INGALLS skillfully combines fairy tale, science fiction and ho hum reality.” —MARGOT DOUGHTERY, PEOPLE • “A tour de force.” —JACK BEATTY, THE ATLANTIC • “INGALLS brings tenderness to the monstrous and renders the recognizable utterly weird. Compact yet capacious, the novel wonders at all the ways we can desire and destroy one another. It’s unabashedly campy and deadly serious; it dares the reader to admit that these aims are not at all at odds.” —LITERARY HUB • “A love affair with a 6-foot-7-inch amphibian might not be every woman’s fantasy, but for DOROTHY―the lonely housewife at the center of this…1982 novel―it’s working out just fine.” —LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE • “This book will have you tearing through it eagerly, and then wondering to yourself how such an odd, brilliant, improbable story ever got told.”—BOMB • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “THE PEARLKILLERS: Four Novellas” AUTHOR: RACHEL INGALLS TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: A Touchstone Book / Simon and Schuster (New York), 1988 EDITION: First Edition Thus* *RE: On the Copyright Page, this statement: “First Touchstone Edition, 1988” & this Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.” NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy NOR a book-club edition. PAGES: 215 ISBN: 0-671-66240-6 CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Wraps/covers with lightly rubbed corners. Light scratching on sides (from normal handling) but bright & clean. No edgewear. Spine is tight & uncreased with fine tips. Text-block edges are lightly toned & there are two small specks or stains on the top edge. Pages are also lightly toned but also pointedly bright & clean with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. This copy is CLEARLY UNREAD. • BONUS: Comes with an original promo postcard. •• SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. 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Magazines are generally shipped PRIORITY MAIL; the Post Office does not permit magazines which carry advertising to be shipped MEDIA MAIL.INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS: To those international countries to which we ship (please see list), the cost of postage is calculated by eBay and individually listed with each item.EXPEDITED SHIPPING: In the United States, EXPEDITED SHIPPING is available if you request, and pay, for it BEFORE we ship your item. *********** HOW TO PAY ***********PAYMENT: As we ship promptly, we ask that you please pay promptly—via PAYPAL. With auctions, payments should be made before 3 days (72 hours) from the time an auction for an item closes. After 4 days—and independent of us!—eBay automatically begins a process for unpaid action. NEED MORE TIME? If you need more time to pay, PLEASE just contact us in advance of the deadline. We understand how life happens, so we don't mind being reasonable. Thank you!*********** LASTLY ***********What more can we say? Haven't we said enough? Well…we can always repeat ourselves. In summary: FLAPPINCAT is genuinely grateful for your patronage and we aim to express that gratitude in every way we can. Thanks for trusting FLAPPINCAT! *********** P.S. COMINGSOON *********** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= FLAPPINCAT’s BIG BARN SALE of RARE VINYL & RARE CDS Featuring the best from a long-running collection of psych, garage, folk, private press, blues, gospel, world, xian, & oddities. *********** *********** • • For other details about this book, please see below. • SERIES: “RADCLIFFE BIOGRAPHY SERIES” TITLE: “SIMONE WEIL: A Modern Pilgrimage” AUTHOR: ROBERT COLES TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: A Merloyd Lawrence Book / Addison Wesley (New York), 1987 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First printing, April 1987”—with no later editions listed. PAGES: 179ISBN: 0201022052 NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition.CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price (17.95) is uncut. DJ is clean & bright with light scratching (from normal handling) on sides. Corners & spine tips are bumped. Light edgewear. • CONDITION OF BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square. Boards are clean with bumped corners. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped tips. The fore text-block edge has a small, light stain; edges are otherwise fine. Endpapers are also fine. The pages are all pointedly clean & bright—with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no tears/rips, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. •• SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.3. OUR DESCRIPTIONS. We describe every item we sell as clearly and accurately as we can. When it comes to describing condition, we tend toward being conservative. 4. PACKING & SHIPPING. We know from experience that items, when not thoughtfully packed, can be damaged during shipment. To avoid that real danger, FLAPPINCAT wraps & cushions your purchase(s) mindfully—and sometimes zealously—in a sturdy package. WARNING: In our zeal, we sometimes over-tape containers and you may need a penknife to unseal our shipments. NOTE: Though we often recycle shipping materials, we do NOT stint on protection. 5. OUR PRICES. We try to offer the lowest prices on eBay for items we sell. Even our most expensive offerings tend to be lower than what others are asking. “You could look it up!” —to quote baseball immortal JACK KEEFE. SUMMARY: We know you have many buying options on eBay. FLAPPINCAT tries to be distinctive by being accurate, mindful, and friendly. *********** How We GRADECONDITION ***********DETAILS. The condition of every item we sell will be described in detail.FLAWS. All discernible flaws will be noted, if not emphasized. Of course, the grading of condition can be subjective. And since no grader is perfect, it is possible that we may at times miss a flaw. It is also possible that we may miss some perfections! Should we make a mistake, you will find FLAPPINCAT eager to fix things with you. Just send us a note and we’ll get on it.GRADING SYSTEM. For books and magazines (and even other items), we use these terms (in order of desirability): VERY FINE or LIKE NEW FINE (or EXCELLENT) NEAR FINE (or NF) VERY GOOD PLUS (or VG+) VERY GOOD (or VG) GOOD FAIR ACCEPTABLE POOR “POOR.” Except in rare cases, for rare items, we tend to avoid selling items that are in utterly “POOR” condition. It is more likely that on a rare item, only one part of an item (out of numerous parts) will be described as “POOR.”RETURNS. We accept that you may wish to return a purchase because you genuinely think we haven't described and graded its condition properly. We accept that we our* imperfect. We also accept that people can see things differently—and still be civil! (*Get it?)POP QUIZ. Please feel free to ask questions at any time about condition (or anything else, except math). EXTRA VISUALS. Although we include multiple photographs in our listings, we usually have others we could share with you. (These extra photos also help to establish a paper-trial in the rare case that an item is damaged en route to you.)*********** SHIPPING ***********Every item is individually priced for postage. That price can be found in the listing, not here. UNITED STATES: In the USA, we ship books via MEDIA MAIL. Magazines are generally shipped PRIORITY MAIL; the Post Office does not permit magazines which carry advertising to be shipped MEDIA MAIL.INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS: To those international countries to which we ship (please see list), the cost of postage is calculated by eBay and individually listed with each item.EXPEDITED SHIPPING: In the United States, EXPEDITED SHIPPING is available if you request, and pay, for it BEFORE we ship your item. *********** HOW TO PAY ***********PAYMENT: As we ship promptly, we ask that you please pay promptly—via PAYPAL. With auctions, payments should be made before 3 days (72 hours) from the time an auction for an item closes. After 4 days—and independent of us!—eBay automatically begins a process for unpaid action. NEED MORE TIME? If you need more time to pay, PLEASE just contact us in advance of the deadline. We understand how life happens, so we don't mind being reasonable. Thank you!*********** LASTLY ***********What more can we say? Haven't we said enough? Well…we can always repeat ourselves. In summary: FLAPPINCAT is genuinely grateful for your patronage and we aim to express that gratitude in every way we can. Thanks for trusting FLAPPINCAT! *********** P.S. COMINGSOON *********** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= FLAPPINCAT’s BIG BARN SALE of RARE VINYL & RARE CDS Featuring the best from a long-running collection of psych, garage, folk, private press, blues, gospel, world, xian, & oddities. *********** ***********

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