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020    9780811232043|q(hardcover) 
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082 00 813/.54|223/eng/20230203 
092    |fF|aINGALLS 
100 1  Ingalls, Rachel,|eauthor. 
245 10 In the act /|cRachel Ingalls. 
264  1 [New York] :|bNew Directions Books,|c2023. 
264  4 |c©1987 
300    61 pages ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "In the Act begins: "As long as Helen was attending her 
       adult education classes twice a week, everything worked 
       out fine: Edgar could have a completely quiet house for 
       his work, or his thinking, or whatever it was." In Rachel 
       Ingalls's blissfully deranged novella, the "whatever it 
       was" her husband's been up to in his attic laboratory 
       turns out to be inventing a new form of infidelity. 
       Initially Helen, before she uncovers the truth, only 
       gently tries to assert her right to be in her own home. 
       But one morning, grapefruit is the last straw: "He read 
       through his newspaper conscientiously, withdrawing his 
       attention from it for only a few seconds to tell her that 
       she hadn't cut all the segments entirely free in his 
       grapefruit-he'd hit exactly four that were still attached.
       She knew, he said, how that kind of thing annoyed him." 
       While Edgar keeps his lab locked, Helen secretly has a key,
       and what she finds in the attic shocks her into action and
       propels In the Act into heights of madcap black comedy 
       even beyond Ingalls's usual stratosphere"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
650  0 Housewives|vFiction. 
650  0 Attics|vFiction. 
650  0 Secrecy|vFiction. 
655  7 Black humor.|2lcgft 
655  7 Novellas.|2lcgft 
830  0 Storybook ND.