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Damage
by Josephine Hart
Paperback : 208 pages
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Introduction
(An astonishing debut novel--dark and shocking--that tells the story of a fatal, erotic obsession. Hart tells the story of a wealthly, successful man who falls in love with his son's fiance, a woman who wields a dangerous power over him. As the son's marriage grows imminent, the father falls deeper and deeper into the abyss of his obsession, plunging toward unfathomable tragedy.
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Note from author Josephine Hart:
“I have always believed that life is a moral experience—that, in the end, there is no escape from a moral summary of one’s life. The story of the individual soul on its journey is the only one worth telling. That’s why I write. I have little or no interest—nor, I believe, any ability whatsoever—to describe the surface experiences of life. Like that of Ruth in Sin, the voice of the man in Damage (and I heard his voice long before I wrote the novel) spoke to me clearly, as do the narrators in all my books. One knows immediately whether a “voice” is true or not. If it is not, I don't listen. And I don't write.”
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