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A portrait of my desire / MacDonald Harris.
LIBRA - Special PS3558.A6468 P67 1993b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, MacDonald, 1921-1993.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- California--Fiction.
- California.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Love stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 291 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Uncorrected Proof.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [1993]
- Summary:
- Harris sets his tale against the decadent eccentricities of a wealthy California beach community. At the center is Harry, a handsome gallery owner, an epicurean lover of all things beautiful, a man who counted his late wife among his most valuable possessions. When he hires Velda Venn, an unsophisticated yet powerfully sexual housekeeper, the order of his exquisite household is gradually subverted. Like the pull of the ocean waves outside his window, Velda draws Harry.
- From calm self-absorption to erotic obsession. He must possess her - and a spectacular painting that changes everything, a painting that seems the very mirror of his strange, uncontrollable desire.
- Notes:
- "A limited edition special advance reader's copy, not for resale"
- Book description and reviews of author's previous book on first leaf.
- OCLC:
- 904442490
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