Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse.

256 pages

Medie	Bøger Paperback Bog (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg)
Udgivet	6. december 2001
ISBN13	9780099750918
Forlag	Vintage Publishing
Antal sider	256
Mål	129 × 198 × 16 mm · 184 g
Sprog	Engelsk