Title: Whistlejacket
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 1988
Description: While investigating his mentor's life and death, Michael, a voyeuristic fashion photographer, travels through a Dionysian landscape where sex is daydream, women and horses share the same erotic power, and perversity is the rule. In his search, Michael uses photographs and paintings to visualize the past and thereby expose a family's decadent legacy of sex, lies, and betrayal.
Subjects: Artistic Photography, Fashion photography, Fiction, Photography of horses, Portrait photography, New York Times reviewed, American fiction (fictional works by one author)