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      The Shadow of Desire

      by Rebecca Stowe
      Published
      Jun 1996
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      228
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      Ginger Moore is our guide in this closely observed, wickedly funny novel. She is a thirty-eight-year-old academic and biographer of obscure women long since dead, who had talent but never lived up to their abilities and she has quietly made her name from these books. She is also involved with a comedian who uses her as a character in his act ("I go to bed with my girlfriend . . . and wake up with Alistair Cooke"). She is on her annual Christmas trip home to a family whose tradition is watching Psycho together. During this stay, she will finally understand the lives of her own family and the incident that led to their inward collapses.

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      Jun 1997 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN13 9780393316582 ISBN10 0393316580
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      First Edition Jun 1996 Pantheon (UK) ISBN13 9780679420668 ISBN10 0679420665
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