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Set in a stark desert, the novel follows the unsettling mansion Windcote, built by the eccentric Raoul Meridian. Over a weekend, a carefully selected group is invited to the estate, where the guests—including Albert, a disowned heir, his striking companion Nadine, and the fiercely independent child Destina—find themselves drawn into a web of obsessions and baffling revelations. Amid desert heat and the mansion’s peculiar architecture, the characters grapple with identity, desire, and the sinister allure of Windcote, culminating in a confrontation that exposes the fragile boundaries between madness, artistry, and self.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Dorothea Tanning
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