Publication

2000 - St. Martin's Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

105,500 words, Guess

Page Count

422 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6057.R386 Z33 2000
  • LCCPR6057.R386Z33 2000

Description

This work presents a delicious combination of confused identities, personal dramas and moral dilemmas in a contemporary chiller from one of our most outstanding novelists. For years, Isobel Latimer has composed serious novels for serious people, but to dwindling acclaim and ever-more dwindling gain. Now her husband is ill and she must carry their financial burden alone, and in secret. But if the public don’t want careful moral fables any longer, why not provide an outrageous tale of sex and satanism, and an author to match. The incomparable, uncontrollable Zelda de Vere is born. What began with the best of intentions snowballs into a disorienting blur of passion, gender-bending, loss of innocence, to betrayal and beyond. Isobel Latimer might feel she’s on the brink of losing everything, but what would Zelda do?

Description

"Isobel Latimer, a writer known for her moral tales, is trapped by the confines of her Puritan image. Not a sarcastic word can pass her lips in public. Not a single dress can show off the faintest traces of her figure. With a literary reputation to uphold and massive, increasing debts to keep secret, Isobel is about to crack. Everyone wants a cut of her talent, time, or her money, but only she knows there's nothing left to give." -- Jacket.

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