You have just discovered that the person you are seeing is married. Tell their spouse. End the relationship. The introduction was written by one of my favorite authors, Michael Cunningham. Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic presence.
Lunch is prepared, drink flows.
A masquerade, at once harrowing and farcical, begins. Truly a work of art, of the kind so rarely achieved or attempted nowadays. All material not explicitly credited otherwise is Copyright 2001, Samantha Johnson. All Rights Reserved.