Book description
In her small upstate New York town, Molly Howe is admired for her
beauty, poise, and character, until one day a secret is exposed and
she is cruelly ostracized. She escapes to Berkeley, where she finds
solace in a young art student named John Wheelwright. They embark on
an intense, all-consuming affair, until the day Molly disappears --
again. A decade later, John is lured by the eccentric advertising
visionary Mal Osbourne into a risky venture that threatens to
eviscerate every concept, slogan, and gimmick exported by Madison
Avenue. And much to John's amazement, one of the many swept into
Osbourne's creative vortex is the woman who left him devastated so
many years before.
In a triumph of literary ingenuity, Jonathan Dee weaves together
the stories of this unforgettable pair, raising haunting questions
about the sources of art, the pain of lost love, and whether it pays
to have a conscience in our cynical age.
