Peter Leroy, working on the principle of the panopticon, constructs a plausible life for Ariane Lodkochnikov, the sultry older sister of his imaginary childhood friend, maker of her own self and her own myth. * "Poignant. Dizzying. Wise. Mr. Kraft has created a heroine as complex as his narrative. [He] is a master at illuminating the shoals and shallows of a young person's heart. [His] work is a weird wonder, successfully mating tales from the kind of small-town life that hardly exists anymore with a never-ending examination of what it's like to create such a world." - Karen Karbo, The New York Times Book Review * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR * Length: novel, about 100,000 words
- ISBN10 0517596121
- ISBN13 9780517596128
- Publish Date 5 April 1994
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 275
- Language English