Perched in an airy penthouse above the corrupt streets of Manhattan, unlicensed P.I. Duck Darley has settled into an unlikely domestic routine with a wealthy divorcée and her precocious eight-year-old son. But old nightmares return when a desperate text from Cass Kimball, the former partner Duck onc
Against Nature: Á rebours
✍ Scribed by Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Publisher
- Dedalus, Distributed in the USA by SCB
- Year
- 2008;2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 210 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Study of obsession and aesthetics in fin-de-siecle France.
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