The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque

图书信息

作者	Ford, Jeffrey
出版社	HarperCollins e-books
ISBN	9780061977039
出版时间	2009-10-06
字数	40.5万
分类	HarperCollins e-books,进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

A mysterious and richly evocative novel, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque tells the story of portraitist Piero Piambo, who is offered a commission unlike any other. The client is Mrs. Charbuque, a wealthy and elusive woman who asks Piambo to paint her portrait, though with one bizarre twist: he may question her at length on any topic, but he may not, under any circumstances, see her. So begins an astonishing journey into Mrs. Charbuque's world and the world of 1893 New York society in this hypnotically compelling literary thriller.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

A Nice Bit of Work

The Messenger

First Wind of Autumn

My Patron

The Only Stipulation

Crystalogogistics

The Twins

The Vizier’s Court

Salvation

God is Fallible

The Sibyl

Dream Woman

The Asylum

A Soliloquy in Brown

Sunday Morning

The Wolf

A Gift from a Child

The Reminder

A Visitor

The Monkey Queen

Happy Accident

An Apology

Nothing is Safe

The Red Herring

Consulting the Twins

The Gallery

The Beheading of Saint John

Claws of Obsession

Hands

Shouts and Murmurs

A Knock Unanswered

Shenz of the Poppies

The Man from the Equator

Awakening

His Little Cocoon

Party Mask

The Medusa

An Insidious Curse

Finish It

Tears of Carthage

They are all Her

Night Train to Babylon

The House on the Dunes

The Boon Companion

Calvary Church

Her Bewitching Form

Phantasm in the Flesh

Blind Devotion

My Self-Portrait

Epilogue: The Angel on the Beach

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Praise

Other Books by Jeffrey Ford

Copyright

About the Publisher