Binstead's Safari (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Rachel Ingalls
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: London and Africa
- Principal Characters: Millie Binstead, Stan Binstead, Henry Lewis
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Marriage, 1980’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Adultery, Death or dying, Loneliness, Bereavement or grief, Joy or sorrow
- Locales: Africa, London, England
Though the main characters in Rachel Ingalls’ Binstead's Safari are American, the novel is set in England (London) and Africa. Millie and Stan Binstead, in fact, are like some of Henry James's characters in that they are the victims of assumptions which change when they encounter people and locales foreign to them. This kind of situation seems natural to Ingalls, an American expatriate who, like James before her, lives in England, where she settled in 1964 and where Binstead's Safari was first published in 1983. Her publishing career, indeed, has followed her taking up...
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