Linda Condon, a child of black bangs and velvet-blue eyes, grows up in the hotels of her gay, careless mother and becomes a woman whose beauty seems untouched by feeling. The sculptor Dodge Pleydon loves her and cannot have her, and the novel traces what beauty costs its possessor and those who worship it.
A short, polished study of beauty and art, often counted among Hergesheimer’s finest work. Download the free EPUB.