Constance
Subtitle: a novel
By: Catherine Cantrell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Authors and publishers -- Fiction.; Poetry -- Authorship -- Fiction.; Women editors -- Fiction.; Women poets -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Constance is about a writer hypnotized by the power of art and language, and about the woman who tells her story. The narrator is an editor, working at a prestigious New York house, whose youthful ideals and belief in literature have been eroded by the practicalities of the publishing world.".

"Then she meets Constance, a writer whose poetry and haunted personality overwhelm and intrigue her. But Constance remains a mystery no matter how the editor attempts to draw her out - until a newspaper photograph exposes what the poet has been so determined to conceal.".

"Finally, Constance reveals her story to the woman who has waited so long to hear it: a story of passion, secrets, and blinkered devotion; a story of mentors and muses and the love of a powerful man; a story that keeps Constance's editor asking questions and searching for answers until the end."--BOOK JACKET.