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| 100 | 1 | _aProse, Francine | |
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_aThe vixen : _ba novel _c/ Francine Prose |
| 250 | _a1st edition | ||
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_aNew York _b: Harper _c, 2021 |
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_a316 p. _c; 24 cm |
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| 520 | _a1953. 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. | ||
| 546 | _aEnglish | ||
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_aRosenberg, Ethel _y-1915-1953 _x-Fiction |
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_aRosenberg, Julius _y-1918-1953 _x-Fiction |
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_aBook editors _v--Fiction |
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_aPublishers and publishing _x-Fiction |
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_aJews _z-New York _z-New York (State) _v--Fiction |
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_aDeception _x-Fiction |
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| 655 | 4 | _aHistorical fiction | |
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