By Jonathan Dee
In her small upstate long island city, Molly Howe is popular for her good looks, poise, and personality, till sooner or later a secret's uncovered and he or she is cruelly ostracized. She escapes to Berkeley, the place she reveals solace in a tender paintings scholar named John Wheelwright. They embark on an excessive, all-consuming affair, till the day Molly disappears-again. A decade later, John is lured by means of the eccentric ads visionary Mal Osbourne right into a dicy enterprise that threatens to eviscerate each notion, slogan, and gimmick exported through Madison street. and masses to John's amazement, one of many many swept into Osbourne's artistic vortex is the girl who left him devastated such a lot of years prior to. In a triumph of literary ingenuity, Jonathan Dee weaves jointly the tales of this unforgettable pair, elevating haunting questions about the resources of artwork, the soreness of misplaced love, and even if it will pay to have a sense of right and wrong in our cynical age.
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