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Picador
September 2003
On Sale: September 1, 2003
224 pages
ISBN: 031242275X
EAN: 9780312422752
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Fiction
Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the
Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but
threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in
New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse,
employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects
that belonged to a murder victim. George, a photographer,
takes an eerie portrait of Iris, which then acquires a
strange life of its own, appearing and disappearing without
warning around the city. After a series of blinding
migraines, Iris ends up in a hospital room with Mrs. O., a
woman who has lost her mind and memory to a stroke, but who
nevertheless retains both the strength and energy to
torment her fellow patient. And finally, there is Professor
Rose, Iris’s teacher and eventually her lover. While
working with him on the translation of a German novella
called The Brutal Boy, she discovers in its protagonist,
Klaus, a vehicle for her own transformation and ventures
out into the city again--this time dressed as a man.
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