Noel Carton, driven to desperation by his vulgar little wife who, in
buying his position, is forced to accept him with it, determines to bury
himself in the writing of a novel, in the vain hope of forgetting. At
the same time he elects to keep a secret journal. In his novel he
subconsciously draws the portraits of the living people surrounding him.
How this novel becomes inextricably entangled with his own journal is
the basis for this extraordinarily original story which leads to an
astounding climax.
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New York London
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