"A fan is like the thighs of a woman: it opens and closes." And so begins this lush, historical novel--a mixture of imagination and conceit, passion and suspense. In a tense courtroom during the French Revolution, a young fan-maker, renowned all over Paris for her sensual and graphic objets d'art, is on trial because of her collaboration with the Marquis de Sade. Heads will roll unless the independent fan-maker, erotically cast in the shadow of Sade, can justify her art and friendships to a court known for its rigid and prudish proprieties. . . . "Startling and evocative . . . A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat." --The New York Times "A GLORIOUSLY PERFUMED NOVEL . . . SEXY, SMART, AND NARCOTIC . . . One of the most vigorous celebrations of the imagination, written by an artisan of uncommon talent." --Los Angeles Times "A LUSCIOUS AND...
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