Winner of the National Book Award

Description:

Twin sisters Dorcas, a woman of certain sexual appetites, and Abigail, prim and virginal, find themselves targeted by predatory poet Conrad, who finds in the sisters a challenge to test his skills as a manipulator and seducer.

subjects: Women librarians in fiction,  Poets,  Murder,  Poets in fiction,  New England in fiction,  Women in fiction,  Women librarians,  Sisters in fiction,  Fiction,  Triangles (Interpersonal relations),  Murder in fiction,  Eccentrics and eccentricities in fiction,  Sisters,  Eccentrics and eccentricities,  Women,  Sisters, fiction,  New england, fiction,  Fiction, psychological,  Fiction, humorous,  Fiction, humorous, general,  Psychological fiction,  Black humor,  Humorous stories,  Triangle (Relations humaines),  Romans, nouvelles,  Femmes,  Femmes bibliothécaires,  Sœurs,  Meurtre,  Poètes,  Humour noir,  Récits humoristiques

Places: New England