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Loretta Lawson, English professor at London University, is annoyed when she discovers a sleeping stranger in the supposedly empty Paris flat she has borrowed. When she returns from a feminist literary conference to find the stranger gone but his bed sheets bloody, Loretta doesn't need an encyclopedia to figure out her mysterious roommate has been murdered.
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Classical in form, contemporary, cool and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Joan Smith
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 199
- Publisher
- Fawcett, ISIS, Scribner
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571147519
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Joan Alison Smith (born 27 August 1953) is an English journalist, novelist, and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN and was the Executive Director of Hacked Off.
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