Laura
By: Larry Watson.
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Men -- Psychology -- Fiction; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Love captures Paul Finley in, of all places, his own bedroom - literally waking him from his dreams. The night he discovers Laura Pettit standing at his windowsill, Paul is eleven years old, a boy naturally inclined toward seriousness, precociously adept at the art of watching the world without being watched. Laura is twenty-two, a fiercely passionate and independent poet already experiencing the first flickers of fame, a beautiful woman on the brink of seducing Paul's father. No matter, Paul is smitten.

When she leaves him to rejoin the grown-ups' party downstairs, Laura issues Paul a wholly impossible command, one that will haunt and consume both of them for the rest of their lives: "Forgive me.""--BOOK JACKET.