The vixen : a novel
Prose, Francine
The vixen : a novel / Francine Prose - 1st edition - New York : Harper , 2021 - 316 p. ; 24 cm
1953. Simon Putnam, newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, gets his first assignment: editing The Vixen, the Patriot and the Fanatic, a lurid bodice-ripper improbably based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. It is a potboiler intended to shore up the firm's failing finances. Simon's mother was a childhood friend of Ethel Rosenberg's; his parents mourn Ethel's death. Simon meets The Vixen author, reckless, seductive Anya Partridge, ensconced in her opium-scented boudoir in a luxury Hudson River mental asylum. Simon comes to realize that everyone is not what they seem, that everyone is keeping secrets, and that ordinary events may conceal a diabolical plot.
English
9780063012141
Rosenberg, Ethel---Fiction---1915-1953
Rosenberg, Julius---Fiction---1918-1953
Book editors----Fiction
Publishers and publishing---Fiction
Jews---New York---New York (State)----Fiction
Deception---Fiction
Historical fiction
FIC PRO
The vixen : a novel / Francine Prose - 1st edition - New York : Harper , 2021 - 316 p. ; 24 cm
1953. Simon Putnam, newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, gets his first assignment: editing The Vixen, the Patriot and the Fanatic, a lurid bodice-ripper improbably based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. It is a potboiler intended to shore up the firm's failing finances. Simon's mother was a childhood friend of Ethel Rosenberg's; his parents mourn Ethel's death. Simon meets The Vixen author, reckless, seductive Anya Partridge, ensconced in her opium-scented boudoir in a luxury Hudson River mental asylum. Simon comes to realize that everyone is not what they seem, that everyone is keeping secrets, and that ordinary events may conceal a diabolical plot.
English
9780063012141
Rosenberg, Ethel---Fiction---1915-1953
Rosenberg, Julius---Fiction---1918-1953
Book editors----Fiction
Publishers and publishing---Fiction
Jews---New York---New York (State)----Fiction
Deception---Fiction
Historical fiction
FIC PRO
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