Thirtythree Swoons A Novel Author:Martha Cooley Martha Cooley, bestselling author of The Archivist, returns with a long-anticipated novel that ranges over the puzzles of family, the marvels of scent, and the release of constricted love. Years after the end of her marriage and the death of her mysterious father, Camilla Archers tightly reined existence is upended by her dreams.A man more... more » real than her waking life begins appearing to her, a theatrical figure in a mask and tuxedo, offering up unexpected visions and reinventions of key moments in her past. In her waking life, Camilla, a New Yorker, runs a successful business selling theater memorabilia.Her knowledge of theater gives her a clue: this vexing nocturnal figure is connected to a legendary Russian director killed during Stalins purges.The masked man was the directors double, in fact--and now hes the sly impresario of Camillas dreams. So begins Camillas piecing-together of the puzzle of her past, along with that of her father, a perfumist, and Eve, the recently deceased cousin with whom Camilla grew up.Traveling in memory and dream back to Moscow and Paris between the wars, Camilla has the chance to unknot her life--if shes willing to ask why a double has infiltrated her dreams, and what he wants her to discover.« less