Anah Krushke Catawbiense

The idyliic French countryside, where summer visitors have gathered turns out to be the scene of a gruesome murder; a beautiful young professor, writing her first novel, has a heart-rending accident on the way home from a lecture. Like most novellas, these two stories have endings that are located at the brink of change but leave the reader in suspense. Novellas, quite frankly, are literary treasures. These two, themed novellas on betrayal conform to Virginia Woolf's notion that, ""Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."