Revealing a Paris both elegant and tawdry, this novel opens during the French bicentennial celebrations of July 1989. It concerns the affair of an American woman with Stephane, a brilliant, though drunken, violinist, and depicts her efforts to save Stephane from his wife, "The Monster".
Grace Andreacchi is a U.S.-born author known for her blend of poetic language and modernism with a post-modernist sensibility. Andreacchi is active as a novelist, poet and playwright.