Angels Go Naked A Novel in Stories

Margy Rose is a talented but nervous violinist given to bouts of stage fright and unrequited love; Webster Hale is a biologist who, on principle, refuses to kill animals in order to study them. A novel told in stories, Angels Go Naked follows their vexed love story and the collision course they call their life. Yet their connection with each other is never in doubt and at the end of this sad, funny and moving tale, there may be hope, as life and love prove unexpectedly resilient.

Cornelia Nixon is the author of Angels Go Naked, Now You See It, and Jarrettsville, as well as a book of literary criticism. She has won two O. Henry Awards (one of them the First Prize in 1995), two Pushcart Prizes, a Nelson Algren Prize, and the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. She lives half the year in Berkeley, California, and half on an island in Puget Sound, Washington.