First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. viii, 264. Turquoise cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
Winner of a 2002 Lambda Literary Award. Author's third book, following the critically acclaimed short-story collection Ten Women Who Shook the World (2000), and the similarly well-received novel The Metaphysical Touch (1999). Narrated by a naïve Yale freshman, it is the story of the beginning, blossoming and falling apart of a delirious love affair. The long-awaited sequel, Pages for Her, set 20 years apart, was published in 2017. "Language is the real object of infatuation here... words are as seductive as bodies." –Independent on Sunday