By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace
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The trick was to disappear without a trace, leaving behind me the shadow of a corpse, a shadow everyone would mistake for solid reality. At first I thought I'd managed it.Fat girl, thin girl. Red hair, brown hair. Polish aristocrat, radical husband. Joan Foster has dozens of different identities, and she's utterly confused by them all. After a life spent running away from difficult situations, she decides to escape to a hill town in Italy to take stock of her life.
But first she must carefully arrange her own death.
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'A mistress of controlled hysteria' - Time
'If you feel safe only with "nine to five" reality, you'll probably not enjoy her books. But if you'd like to lift off, try her' - Cosmopolitan
- ISBN10 0380017997
- ISBN13 9780380017997
- Publish Date 1 January 1978 (first published 1 January 1976)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Imprint Avon Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English