"Basically, it's the story of a murder, a straightforward crime of passion in which a poor and lonely artist kills a lovely Chinese prostitute who has befriended him and nursed him back to health. It... This description may be from another edition of this product.
A painful pleasure is this ambitious novel, weighted as it is with a sad sense of emotional isolation, yet beautifully rendered by a writer whose careful, patient prose--like all those whose work is worthy of admiration--seeks that supreme aim of the novelist: the successful construction of a soul on paper.
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