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In 1970s New York City, beautiful, twenty-five-year-old Beatrice is married to a talented but volatile painter whose obsession with her has turned to hatred, all the while dealing with a seductive childhood friend, a charismatic and lonely Vietnam veteran, an aspiring musician, the older man she meets in a bar, a young addict, and Perkins, the enigmatic, menacing man next door. 15,000 first printing.