A name has been neatly covered on the head of the front end paper, and beneath it place and date of purchase neatly written in pencil. This is the books only fault. "A collection of short stories which tear through the archives of cinema, of art and of the subconscious. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a fly-blown Southern brothel; and a transfigured Mary Magdalene steps out of the canvases of Donatello and de la Tour." (Publisher's blurb)