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183 pp.
| Farrar |
March, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-374-32446-8$$16.00
(3)
YA
This disturbing, sensual, and image-dense novel limns a sexual relationship between love-struck fifteen-year-old Anna and Thorn, an intense, exploitative twenty-nine-year-old poet who uses her pain and beauty as art. As Anna learns her own boundaries, fate and the tarot cards point her toward Dylan, a teenager who loves her mutely and who sacrifices his own eye to save her.