First published 2001
Julia Lambert is theater royalty—brilliant, mercurial, and utterly magnetic on stage. When a young admirer enters her orbit, she sees an opportunity to reinvigorate her fading career and personal passion. But seduction comes with dangerous consequences, threatening to unravel her carefully constructed professional and romantic life. As Julia manipulates those around her, she discovers that her greatest performance might be her most perilous yet. Can she control the narrative, or will her own dramatic impulses consume her?
Genres: fiction, drama, literary-fiction, 20th-century
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, thought-provoking
Tropes: reinvention, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Pacific Island
Period: 20th Century
304 pages · Paperback · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group