Le Guin, Joyce Carol Oates, and Eleanor Catton may help this thrice-born baby to survive and thrive. Praise from heavy-hitters such as Ursula K. Caliban is being reissued, a timely resurrection in this gender-mesmerized time, given the author's proto-feminist take on life. Personally, I'm a sucker for any kind of literary archaeology that unearths classics from the past. Caliban was briefly rescued by an unlikely deus ex machina: The British Book Marketing Council, which in 1986 named it "one of the 20 greatest American novels since World War II." Its 15 minutes in the public eye ended quickly enough, and this strange, unlikely fable once again sank into obscurity. Originally published in 1983 and seemingly doomed to a dead end ride on the oblivion express, Mrs. Caliban, a peculiar but wonderful and long-overlooked novella by Rachel Ingalls. This season's secret weapon in literary cocktail banter will be Mrs. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Caliban Author Rachel Ingalls and Rivka Galchen Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Mrs.
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