THE GOD OF NIGHTMARES
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THE GOD OF NIGHTMARES (ebook)

PAULA FOX

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"Vividly rendered…haunting…[Paula Fox] writes with silken ease and a sensitivity to nuance." — Newsday In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with a bohemian group of intellectuals, she discovers romance and sex, friendship and risk, her world mirrored by the steamy mystery of the French Quarter.

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