Title: A collection of beauties at the height of their popularity : a novel /
Authors: Otto, Whitney.
Publisher: Random House,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Young adults Fiction.; Bars (Drinking establishments) Fiction.; San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction.
Abstract: In 1980s San Francisco, a group of rootless young characters drifts through life, enjoying their friendship, romances, and shared experiences while congregating at the Youki Singe Tea Room, a North Beach bar, while searching for love, meaning, and a truehome.
Contents: Entrance -- A story of love on the veranda -- Twelve hours in the yoshivara -- A sundial of maidens -- A collection of beauties at the height of their popularity -- Beauties along the tokaido -- Love deeply concealed -- Moon of the pleasure quarters -- Tale of a strange marriage -- Woman reading a letter -- Edo castle and the nightless castle -- A moored pleasure boat beneath a bridge -- Lunacy unrolling letters -- The book lover -- Two pillow books.