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"In the stark beauty of a remote desert, a mansion built by a madman rears its impudent architecture like an insult to its surroundings. The estate is called Windcote, "its very name a masquerade," and its master, the odious Raoul Meridian, has invited a group of guests to spend a weekend, over the course of which they will find themselves driven by obsessions and confusions unlike any they've experienced before. Among them is Albert, a disowned scion searching for an identity, and his too-beautiful companion Nadine, who is irresistibly drawn to the desert and the inscrutable vortex of…
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2 editions- Hardcover · English · 2004Virago Press Ltd · 160 pages · 9781844081318
- Other · English · 2004Overlook Press · 156 pages · 9781585675845
FictionMentally illDesertsMansionsArtistsFiction, generalFiction, psychological









