“...all at once, as if another light had been switched on, I saw the hidden picture. Within the contours of the island was a woman. A woman, naked, on her back, her knees up and legs splayed open, her face hidden by a forearm flung across it and by the long hair greenish, grayish that flowed around her like the sea.
“The center of the painting, what drew the eye and commanded the attention, was the woman s vulva: all the life of the painting was concentrated there. A slash of pink, startling against the mossy greens and browns, seemed to touch a nerve in my own groin.” -- from My Death
The narrator of this creepy but feministically delicious novella, an early 21st-century novelist, decides to write the biography of Helen Ralston, an all-but-forgotten 20th-century novelist she has long admired. In the late 1920s, Helen studied painting with W.E. Logan. Logan painted her as Circe, and Helen painted herself as an island titled My Death. When they parted for good, both turned to writing. Willy became famous; Helen did not. The narrator of My Death intends to do something about that. But first she must solve the mystery of Helen’s relationship with Willy and why Helen titled her self-portrait My Death.
Lisa Tuttle is the author of seven novels and five short story collections. She has also published nonfiction and more than a dozen books for younger readers. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she has made her home in a remote rural region of Scotland for the last eighteen years.
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Vendeur : Pat Cramer, Bookseller, Lewisville, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Mark Harrison (illustrateur). First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean unread unused copy. Signed by Lisa and Thomas Tessier. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Signed Copy. Book. N° de réf. du vendeur 048663
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Vendeur : The Cornish Bookworm, CAMBORNE, CORNW, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st and Limited Edition. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION No. 211 of 300. Also signed by Thomas Tessier who wrote the introduction. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket which has light scratch marks on cover. Size - 215mm. x 152mm.(8vo.). Pp.93. Signed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur 003730
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Vendeur : La Doyenne, Cambridge, Royaume-Uni
Harrogate: PS Publishing LLP, 2004. 15 x 22.5 cm. 93pp. First edition, Double Signed Limited Edition. An excellent copy, signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf as issued, #11. In publisher's original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Complete with a perfect dust wrapper and green page marker. No tears or fading. Contains dedication on ivory endpaper. Signed by author and by writer of introduction, Thomas Tessier. Copy 11/300. "A Gothic Novella with a Feminist twist. [S]hort, uncanny, provocative" -- The New York Times. Special Signed & Limited edition. N° de réf. du vendeur LD013
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Vendeur : Books & Bobs, Deeside, FLINT, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : As New. 1st Edition. Limited edition hardcover, SIGNED by both Lisa Tuttle and Thomas Tessier. Number 215 of 300 double signed copies. A tight, bright and clean copy with no inscriptions. 93pp. (15.5x22cm). Please contact us for any more information. Signed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur 6056
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