Black Venus
Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire''s handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet''s passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds...Edgar Allen Poe, with his face of a a...
Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire''s handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet''s passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds...Edgar Allen Poe, with his face of a a...
