The Vet’s Daughter—Essential Surrealist Reading
Published in 1959 and written in an offbeat style similar to Robert Walser but even stranger, Comyns walks the line between harsh reality and neon-colored dream when Alice learns she can levitate. When her father discovers her powers, he imagines the lucrative possibilities, and the book ends with a struggle between escapist dream and bruise-worthy reality with room for only one outcome.
—Barabara Comyns’s The Vet’s Daughter made the list for Flavorwire’s “10 Essential Surrealist Books for Everyone.” And you know we love it when Robert Walser is a point of reference.
