Shifting from mundane normalcy to unmitigated horror in barely perceptible degrees, the two tales presented here--Bud and Sis and Be My Guest--are unsettling, scary, and truly astonishing. "Rachel Ingalls is more than a master storyteller: She is also a superb artist".--Los Angeles Times.
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Shifting from mundane normalcy to unmitigated horror in barely perceptible degrees, the two tales presented here--Bud and Sis and Be My Guest--are unsettling, scary, and truly astonishing. "Rachel Ingalls is more than a master storyteller: She is also a superb artist".--Los Angeles Times.
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Add this copy of Be My Guest: Two Novellas to cart. $2.14, like new condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by Random House, Incorporated.
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New York. 1992. June 1992. Turtle Bay Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0679413006. 239 pages. hardcover. Jacket photo by Arthur Tress. Jacket design by /Susan Mitchell. keywords: Literature America Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The two novellas in this eighth book from Ingalls ( Mrs. Caliban, The Pearlkillers ) per usual style? depend less on outright fantasy than her previous works do, though her maverick imagination has supplied an intriguing premise for each of them. Be My Guest seems odd to call it title story when there are only two stories in book concerns a rather bland young woman, Sandra, who impulsively decides to marry a man with a spooky, eccentric son. Though Ingalls establishes Sandra as a closet romantic who is waiting for life to fulfill her dreams, she does not convince the reader that Sandra would let herself be swept precipitously into marriage even after discovering that her fiance was accused of killing his first wife. Sis and Bud chronicles the sibling protagonists' emotional trauma when they learn they were adopted. Alma and Bruce eventually seek out or ‘seek out' their natural parents, but Bud's obsession with exacting revenge on the mother who abandoned him leads to an unconvincingly melodramatic denouement. Though carefully contructed and well thought-out, the stories are essentially inert. The characters' aberrant behavior is suitably explained, but not conveyed with the rising tension that Joyce Carol Oates, for example, brings to her works of psychological suspense. And the ambiguous endings of both tales are less provocatively teasing than frustrating. -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. inventory #16589.
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Good. We flipped through this book and didn't notice any notes or underlines. The dust jacket shows normal wear and tear. This is a hardcover copy Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
Add this copy of Be My Guest: Two Novellas [Sis and Bud; Be My Guest] to cart. $9.00, very good condition, Sold by Gils Book Loft rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Binghamton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by Turtle Bay Bks/ Random.
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DJ by Susan Mitchell. Near Fine in Fine jacket. pp. 238. Charcoal cloth spine w/ gray bds. Remainder-striped fore-edge. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. 238 pgs.
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No highlighting markings or writing. Pages and cover clean and intact. Used book in very good conditions. Minor cosmetic defects may be present. May include library marks.
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Random House, NY, 1982. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Former owners signature on front free end paper. 1992. HARDCOVER.
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As New in As New dust jacket. 0679413006. Book and DJ As New. No names or ANY markings. DJ with very minor rub to REAR else New, not price clipped ($20)
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