Venus Blue is a novel in pursuit of its own subject: a 1930s bush pilot and 'gorgeous vagabond' named Molly Lamanna. As the focal point of an intense devotion, Molly, nonetheless, defies description: the closer one gets, the more ambivalent she becomes. Discovered by Hollywood at the edge of an airstrip in the Mojave desert, she manages to elude not only those about her, but - as both amnesiac and pilot prone to long, self-absolving flights up the Californian coastline - herself as well. Set in film-noir chiaroscuro, the ...
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Venus Blue is a novel in pursuit of its own subject: a 1930s bush pilot and 'gorgeous vagabond' named Molly Lamanna. As the focal point of an intense devotion, Molly, nonetheless, defies description: the closer one gets, the more ambivalent she becomes. Discovered by Hollywood at the edge of an airstrip in the Mojave desert, she manages to elude not only those about her, but - as both amnesiac and pilot prone to long, self-absolving flights up the Californian coastline - herself as well. Set in film-noir chiaroscuro, the novel is narrated by a present-day Hollywood memorabilia collector, Stefan Hollander. Something in the enticing vacuity of Molly's aspect as she flickers across a late-night television screen arrests his attention. Soon after, he comes to possess a journal, a kind of confessional, bound in flamboyant sapphire, kept by the one who most avidly worshipped at Molly's shrine: Millicent Rappaport, herself a Hollywood beauty. Of all the veneration Molly would incite in the various broken or obliterated segments of her life, Millicent's alone would come closest to capturing the spirit, if not the heart, of this glorious escapee.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? -9? " tall; Hardback First Printing of First Edition Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. A story seeking the self of a Hollywood star of the 1930s, by two women determined to find where and what that was, set against the lush and corrupt background of Hollywood's glory years. Handsome volume with Remader Mk on bottom edge its only defect, in burgundy half cloth with gilt titles, ivory patterned cloth wrapped boards, spotless, tight & solid, no cover wear. Internals as new. Clean and unmarked, unclipped. Dust Jacket has a vintage appearance and look as new, but it is chipped at the spine head and lightly rumpled at rear lower corner. 250 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. Little Brown & Co Publishers, Boston, MA 1992.
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Fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Very short line to bottom edge, nothing at all offensive. Highly attractive. As new gift quality.
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Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 8vo 8 1/2"x 5 1/4" maroon cloth-tape w/ off-white paper boards; pub logo blindstamped on front, silver lettering on spine; 250 pgs; illus dust jacket w/ $19.95 on front flap, author photo by Esther Sobin on rear; Sobin's 1st novel. quotes by Michael Ignatieff, John Berger & Albert Mobilio on back cover. jacket design by Louise Fili w/ art by Bill Nelson.
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