| Desire is a novel about being overthat limit. In our century we haveabandoned the conventions of ro-mance, with its grand gestures, itsself-immolating passion -- or havewe? The state of desire is as timelessas it is consuming. When Lily, a "pearl doctor"and heiress to a San Francisco jew-elry dynasty, finds her safe worldexploded by an obsessive affair, sheseems to be repeating a family his-tory she has just begun to learn.Eventually, her very survival will |
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