WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE ON POSTAGE IF POSSIBLE - SOFT COVER MID SIZE- NO TEARS OR MARKSAt once a psychological thriller and a social critique, is a story of obsessive love in an age of obsessive materialism. Of impulse and paralysis, of empty marriages, lovers and a small boy, gambling and the market, of adult children and their parents, of poetry and prostitution, psychiatry and the law.