Mrs. Caliban (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Rachel Ingalls
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Modern gothic romance
- Time of Work: Late twentieth century
- Setting: Southern California
- Principal Characters: Dorothy, Larry, Fred, Estelle, Sandra
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Culture, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Nature, Marriage, Betrayal, California, West, U.S., Adultery, Death or dying, Fantasy, Depression, mental, Sea or seafaring life, Loneliness, Middle Ages, Comedy, Horror, Monsters, Animals
- Locales: California
The Novel
Mrs. Caliban begins with a deft portrait of a failed marriage. Fred and Dorothy lost whatever connection they might have had when their son “died under an ordinary anaesthetic given before a simple appendectomy.... And a few months later, she lost the baby.” Now they are living a pathetic “ritual” of “despair,” of “silence and separateness”—sleeping in single beds and living lives completely unknown to each other. Fred goes off each day to his office and his miserable, unfulfilling affairs; Dorothy cleans the house, exercises, and works in her...
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