Paul Avery is in prison for murder, and he sets out to tell how he was brought to commit his crime. His memoir - self-absorbed and tormented, wry and comical - focuses on his disastrous romantic adventures which led to their grim culmination. It is a story of intense passion and humiliation, love and indifference, desire and cruelty, of the attempt to reach out yet hopelessly finding only oneself. Fourteen-year-old Paul is mortally wounded by his first love, a married woman. He becomes an orphan who, at 16, brutally abuses, ...
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Paul Avery is in prison for murder, and he sets out to tell how he was brought to commit his crime. His memoir - self-absorbed and tormented, wry and comical - focuses on his disastrous romantic adventures which led to their grim culmination. It is a story of intense passion and humiliation, love and indifference, desire and cruelty, of the attempt to reach out yet hopelessly finding only oneself. Fourteen-year-old Paul is mortally wounded by his first love, a married woman. He becomes an orphan who, at 16, brutally abuses, both emotionally and sexually, his cousin. Eventually he turns into a psychologist who commits the ultimate professional sin: he falls in love with one of his patients - and acts on it. With a mix of wit and pathos that amuses as much as shocks the reader, Games of the Blind looks straight into the hearts of those of us who think we are ruled by true passion when all we can really see is the prison walls of our selves.
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Collectible, Fine in Fine jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, fine in fine dj. First U.S. edition. first printing. Paul Avery is in prison for murder, and he sets out to tell how he was brought to commit his crime. His memoir-self-absorbed and tormented, wry and comical-focuses on his disastrous romantic adventures which led to their grim culmination. It is a story of intense passion and humiliation, love and indifference, desire and cruelty, of the attempt to reach out yet hopelessly finding only oneself. 207 pp.
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SULLIVAN, Evelin. GAMES OF THE BLIND. NY: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, [1994]. 8vo., cloth & boards in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Sullivan on half-title page: "Dear Alexander, At last we meet! Best, Evelin. 11/5/94". Also signed again by Sullivan on the title page. Near fine; little soil d/j. $25.00.
