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By Spanidou, Irini
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Authors: Spanidou, Irini
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paperback
GTIN13: 9780375713149
ISBN10: 037571314X
Page Count: 224
Dimensions: 5.12x0.69x8.1
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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The setting is 1970s New York City, a time and a place of fervid creativity, sexual freedom, and unforseen dangers. At its center is Beatrice: twenty-five, mesmerizingly lovely, intelligent, and married to Ned, a volatile painter whoseobsession with her has turned to hatred. Beatrice is desired by everyone around her: by Faye, her seductive, bawdy childhood friend; by Cyril, a lonely, charismatic Vietnam vet; by Chris, a young heroin junkie. And then there is Perkins, the oddly threatening man next door. An intoxicating mix of desire, longing, and menace. 224p.

Description

From the author of God's Snake, and Fear comes a stunning novel that shines light on what it means to be beautiful, and to be possessed--by oneself, and by others.

The setting is 1970s New York City, a time and place of creativity, sexual freedom, and unforeseen dangers. At its center is Beatrice, who is twenty-five, mesmerizingly lovely, intelligent, and married to Ned, a volatile painter whose obsession with her has turned to hatred. Beatrice is desired by everyone around her: by Faye, her seductive, bawdy childhood friend; by Cyril, a lonely, charismatic Vietnam veteran; by Chris, a young heroin addict. And then there is Perkins, the oddly threatening man next door.

An intoxicating mix of desire, longing, and menace, Before captures a dizzying time in America.

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