In her small upstate New York town, Molly Howe is admired for her beauty, poise, and character, until one day a secret is exposed and she is cruelly ostracized. She escapes to Berkeley, where she finds solace in a young art student named John Wheelwright. They embark on an intense, all-consuming affair, until the day Molly disappears-again. A decade later, John is lured by the eccentric advertising visionary Mal Osbourne into a risky venture that threatens to eviscerate every concept, slogan, and gimmick exported by Madison Avenue. And much to John's amazement, one of the many swept into Osbourne's creative vortex is the woman who left him devastated so many years before. In a triumph of literary ingenuity, Jonathan Dee weaves together the stories of this unforgettable pair, raising haunting questions about the sources of art, the pain of lost love, and whether it pays to have a conscience in our cynical age.
- ISBN10 1849016445
- ISBN13 9781849016445
- Publish Date 24 February 2011 (first published 14 May 2002)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 19 September 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Corsair
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 448
- Language English