Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse.

256 pages

Media	Bøker Pocketbok (Bok med mykt omslag og limt rygg)
Utgitt	6. desember 2001
ISBN13	9780099750918
Utgivere	Vintage Publishing
Antall sider	256
Mål	129 × 198 × 16 mm · 184 g
Språk	Engelsk