false <![CDATA[The Blindfold: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171904326m/125496.jpg 125496 8 Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged to a murder victim. George, a photographer, takes an eerie portrait of Iris, which then acquires a strange life of its own, appearing and disappearing without warning around the city. After a series of blinding migraines, Iris ends up in a hospital room with Mrs. O., a woman who has lost her mind and memory to a stroke, but who nevertheless retains both the strength and energy to torment her fellow patient. And finally, there is Professor Rose, Iris's teacher and eventually her lover. While working with him on the translation of a German novella called The Brutal Boy, she discovers in its protagonist, Klaus, a vehicle for her own transformation and ventures out into the city again-this time dressed as a man. 1163811 1992 The Blindfold: A Novel total:311|5:60|4:104|3:104|2:35|1:8| 311 1106 505 45 5 2 false false Sat Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 11 22:07:28 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 15 15:09:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 07:15:49 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 14:16:28 -0700 2008 The Blindfold:
Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want.

Weelllll..... then this book would be totally changed, because I truly did want it to be good.

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Each story is a short span in one character's life, a young grad student in NYC. The only negative to this collection is that the last ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 08 08:12:26 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 10:32:55 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=125496