The Exquisite Thing Author:Joyce MacIver In Angelica Carthage, the aurthor creates a heroine as unprecedented in our day as Lady Chatterley and Madame Bovary were in theirs. A stunning Beauty, in her twenties, Angelica is desperate for love-on her own terms. The plunge into her own sensual underworld brings a variety of partners--a schoolboy,an older man, a sadist, a Lesbian.But none o... more »f these affairs offers her the satisfaction she seeks;nor can she face the emotional carnage she causes in the lives of those she chooses to love.« less