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DAYS LIKE TODAY by Ingalls, Rachel - 2000

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DAYS LIKE TODAY

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London, England: Faber & Faber, 2000. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. London, England: Faber & Faber, 2000. Softcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 289 pages. The author's sixth collection of short stories. Possibly, Rachel Ingalls' valedictory collection. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original in the United Kingdom only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Faber & Faber: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with black titles on cover and spine, as issued. Text by Rachel Ingalls. Printed on archival stock paper in the United Kingdom to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Rachel Ingalls' "Days Like Today". Her final collection of short stories, a genre she has inimitably made her own. Five stories that "pose the same questions: What do people really believe in, where can they put their trust, and why do they continue to hope?" (Publisher's blurb). Even her masterpiece, "Mrs. Caliban", classified as a novel, is really a long short story, a work of condensed brilliance, written in spare, immaculate prose, not a single word wasted, not a single gratuitous rhetorical trope. The way she is able to evoke the senses, especially the sense of smell, remains unsurpassed. The smell of war in "Veterans", the longest and finest piece in the collection, is evoked in descriptive passages of sustained power. She writes of our otherwise imperceptible transformations through our perceptive senses: Because if one cannot sense the truth, then it probably isn't true. Rachel Ingalls is THE bewildering, eternal recluse among great late-modern writers in English. She has never made a public appearance in her fifty-odd-year career as a published writer, and her publishing history is as bewildering as her tales. For devoted reader/collectors, the rules of thumb are fairly simple: a) All of her books first appeared in the United Kingdom, where she has lived since 1964; b) All of them have been issued subsequently in the United States, sometimes under altogether different titles such as the present volume; and c) the American Editions remain eminently collectible, particularly for completists, because she has been served well by her publishers here in terms of both content and production values. One of the greatest storyteller-writers of our time, she is a latter-day Isak Dinesen whose theme is the sublime mystery of human existence. Once started, it is impossible to put down a Rachel Ingalls book. An absolute "must-have" title for Rachel Ingalls collectors. <b><i> This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. </b></i> Rachel Ingalls' "Mrs. Caliban" is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels in the English language of the 20th century. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER RACHEL INGALLS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0571201105.
  • Bookseller Modern Rare US (US)
  • Format/Binding Softcover
  • Book Condition Used - Fine
  • Jacket Condition Fine Dust Jacket.
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  • Edition First Edition. First Printing.
  • Binding Paperback
  • ISBN 10 0571201105
  • ISBN 13 9780571201105
  • Publisher Faber & Faber
  • Place of Publication London, England
  • Date Published 2000
  • Pages 289

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