Caliban” a “searing masterpiece,” to The New Yorker, which deconstructed the entire Ingalls oeuvre this month. The media was paying attention, from Entertainment Weekly, which called “Mrs. It won a new round of flattering reviews (“A lost-and-found surrealist treasure,” said The Los Angeles Times “A damn-near perfect novella,” said Literary Hub), and suddenly an Ingalls revival was underway - fueled perhaps in part by the December release that year of “The Shape of Water,” a movie with a similar plot. The editors reissued the book in the United States. Caliban,” the unsettling tale of a romance between a lonely suburban housewife and a sea creature. Then, in late 2017, editors at New Directions, the New York publishing house, rediscovered “Mrs. “I’m really no good at meeting lots of strangers,” she once said, “and I’d resent being set up as the new arrival in the zoo.” She never sought the limelight, and it rarely found her. Caliban” (1982), was named to a list of best postwar American novels, she earned some recognition, but it was fleeting. Rachel Ingalls, an American writer living in London, toiled for most of her life in obscurity.
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