Lucy Crown is a novel by Irwin Shaw first published in 1956. It is about a wife and mother — the eponymous character — who, in the summer of 1937, begins an affair with a young man whom the Crowns have hired as a companion for their fragile son...
A girl who repeatedly halves her boyfriend; a waitress who turns into Elvis; a family of conceptual artists who live their art. Every story packs its share of explosive material, often with a side of magic. Consider Angela Carter as the fairy...