Dimensions
130 x 198 x 29mm
"Though it's true there's a killing in my story, its principle violence is, I think I'd have to say, the violence of love."
Norrie Blume is a painter who has accepted a prestigious fellowship at Radcliffe college; she's excited to leave her job as a commercial graphic designer and take up the artist's life. But she's also in the middle of an intense love affair with a married colleague, an affair that is threatening to consume both their lives.
At Radcliffe, Norrie develops friendships with two other fellows, a journalist and a poet. One is deep, comforting; the other ruled by need and guilt. These three intense relationships quickly begin to infringe upon each other, but it is only when tragedy strikes that Norrie realises just how thin the line is between love and obsession . . .
A startling and provocative debut, Patricia Traxler's novel is equal parts auspicious literary thriller, suspenseful page-turner, and erotic novel about the nature of desire and the danger of love.
