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Overview
Fear, a wistful comic novel, explores the coupling of art and commerce. It is the story of a writer, an Englishman named Fear, who lives in Paris, burdened by debt. When his bank manager, the beguiling Madame Jaffre, suggests that the path to his fiscal salvation -- and perhaps his spiritual renewal as well -- lies in writing something commercial, an erotic novel, he embarks on a novel within the novel, and much more. Praise for Simon Lane's Still Life With Books: "Often funny and always beautiful...Prismatic language that for all its obvious intelligence and wit never places the reader at a distance". -- Publishers Weekly (starred) "A quietly charming and cerebral amusement". -- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781882593224
- ISBN-10: 1882593227
- Publisher: Bridge Works Publishing Company
- Publish Date: February 1998
- Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.82 x 0.79 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.79 pounds
- Page Count: 184
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