"From critically acclaimed author Paul Griner comes Collectors, a novel about one woman's risky fascination with a handsome, enigmatic man. Jean Duprez, an ad agency art director who specializes in effectual but unnerving concepts for her clients, meets the handsome and mysterious Steven Cain at a family wedding. Despite Cain's marked indifference to her and his unsettling personal history, Jean finds herself drawn to him, confiding her own indiscretions in him despite their having just met. As their liaison continues, it ...
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"From critically acclaimed author Paul Griner comes Collectors, a novel about one woman's risky fascination with a handsome, enigmatic man. Jean Duprez, an ad agency art director who specializes in effectual but unnerving concepts for her clients, meets the handsome and mysterious Steven Cain at a family wedding. Despite Cain's marked indifference to her and his unsettling personal history, Jean finds herself drawn to him, confiding her own indiscretions in him despite their having just met. As their liaison continues, it becomes a mirror for the collecting process as well: how goods are bought and sold, who determines their worth, and most importantly, the tense, complicated bargaining between buyer and seller. What is never quite clear is whether Jean is the innocent prey of a dangerous lothario or if she's deliberately put herself in harm's way. In the masterful hands of Paul Griner, Collectors becomes not just a novel about what one woman will risk for love or something like it, but a probing examination of the intricacies of relationship power dynamics, and how they are never quite what they seem. "--
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As New in As New dust jacket. 0679448462. Book and DJ New. No names or ANY markings. New DJ not price clipped ($19.95) Never opened.; Author's 1st book.; 174 pages.
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VG to VG- in na jacket. Signed and Dated by the Author. Signed & dated by the author. Some rubbing & edgewear; small creases at edges/corners; some yellowing; overall clean & tight. 174 pages.
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