The God of Nightmares
21 May 2002
Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.
Description
"Vividly rendered…haunting…[Paula Fox] writes with silken ease and a sensitivity to nuance." —Newsday
In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with a bohemian group of intellectuals, she discovers romance and sex, friendship and risk, her world mirrored by the steamy mystery of the French Quarter.
Reviews
"For me, [Fox] has been an indispensable guide, for the perfection of her language and the sternness of her gaze. Anyone who owns a complete set of the reissued novels possesses a literary and moral treasure." — Rosellen Brown
"Fox manages to avoid sentimentality…And that is at the heart of Fox's accomplishment in this novel about difficult romance: the eschewal of sentimentality and illusion in favor of real sentiment." — Washington Post
"Wonderfully rich." — New York Times Book Review
"Lyrically written and elegantly crafted…Fox brilliantly the fierce attentiveness and openness, bafflement, embarrassment and self-consciousness, as well as the wonder and joy of naive youth." — San Francisco Chronicle
"A novel cast from the senses. The characters love and die in the watery warm light of New Orleans, in a language of pleasure that takes its ethos from that city's status in the American imagination as the capital of sensuality." — Washington Times
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