The perfect place

Sheila Kohler

first published 1989 Other Press, 2005 147 pages

"At a hotel in Switzerland, a mysterious and elegant woman is recovering from an unspecified illness. One day, a man approaches her on the terrace. "You were a friend of Daisy Summers," he says. With that simple statement begins the unraveling of a decades-old mystery and a journey into a mind as fascinatingly intelligent and amoral as readers have seen since Patricia Highsmith unleashed The Talented Mr. Ripley. Othe...

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The perfect place edition · 2005 · Other Press · 147 pages
The Perfect Place paperback · 1991 · Vintage · 148 pages · 9780099936008
The perfect place. edition · 1990 · Cape · 147 pages
The perfect place edition · 1989 · Knopf · 147 pages

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