A story of a dangerous triangle between a psychoanalyst who sleeps with his patient, a female 'hysteric' on the edge of being cured, and a loner in the Sierra foothills is set in California and Mexico during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Blending fact and fiction, this inventive novel recreates the life of Harry Gold, a real-life chemist who became a Soviet spy, following his life from the 1930s through the McCarthy era and Gold's eventual espionage at Los Alamos. Reprint.

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Tennessee Williams called Jane Bowles "the most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters." John Ashbery said she was "one of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language," consistently producing "the surprise that is the one essential ingredient of great art." Here, available again, is the only biography of this powerful writer. (view table of contents)

The private lives of three women in a 1950s California university town change tragically and irrevocably when they enroll in a modern dance class, where their self-expression moves them toward an emotional precipice

A dual biography explores the contrasting lives and personalities of two American expatriates who lived and worked in Europe and achieved international fame in their respective arts

The correspondence of the American author portrays her personal life, her marriage to the writer and composer, Paul Bowles, and her struggle with illness