The Folding StarPantheon Books, 1994 - 422 ページ Edward Manners - thirty-three, disaffected, in search of a new life - has come to an ancient Flemish city to teach English. Almost at once he falls in love with one of his pupils, the seventeen-year-old Luc Altidore, recently expelled from school for some mysterious offense. Condemned to a mounting but incommunicable obsession with the boy, Edward becomes involved in affairs with two other men: one a heartless but seductive fraud, the other a young drifter with a deeply possessive streak. Then Edward is introduced to the world of the enigmatic and reclusive Symbolist painter Edgard Orst. Gradually he is drawn toward an understanding of the artist's own obsession with a famous actress, drowned off Ostend at the turn of the century, and of the ambiguous circumstances of Orst's own death under Nazi occupation. |
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... leaving the next morning I was unexpectedly bereft . I wandered back to my room feeling wild and lonely . - An envelope with beautiful , imaginative writing on had been slipped under my door , and lay on the threadbare rug . I tidied ...
... leaving the next morning I was unexpectedly bereft . I wandered back to my room feeling wild and lonely . - An envelope with beautiful , imaginative writing on had been slipped under my door , and lay on the threadbare rug . I tidied ...
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... leaving me , already , alone . For a moment , to my surprise , I was frozen with sympathy for his poor mother , provoked by her son when he ought to have been at school and she was at her most vulnerable . Then I thawed under the hot ...
... leaving me , already , alone . For a moment , to my surprise , I was frozen with sympathy for his poor mother , provoked by her son when he ought to have been at school and she was at her most vulnerable . Then I thawed under the hot ...
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... leaving her house . ' I felt in fact that I had somehow escaped from a run of bad luck . I had caught a mirror before it shattered or avoided seeing the new moon through glass . I could speak for some time in this prudential vein , in ...
... leaving her house . ' I felt in fact that I had somehow escaped from a run of bad luck . I had caught a mirror before it shattered or avoided seeing the new moon through glass . I could speak for some time in this prudential vein , in ...
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