The Medusa Head

by Mary Meigs

For one year in her life, Mary Meigs and her long-term lover and friend, Marie-Claire Blais, lived in a m nage trois with the beautiful and powerful "Andr e." After the end of their stormy three-way relationship, both Marie-Claire and Andr e, who are fiction writers, embodied their memories in novels. The Medusa Head comes from the third woman--the autobiographer, who works hard to uncover the truth about that year. The story begins when Marie-Claire meets Andr e at a literary event in Paris. They fall in love; and when Mary meets Andr e, she falls in love, too. The three of them move to La Salle in Brittany, where Mary and Marie-Claire discover that the beguiling Andr e is emotionally complex. In her happy, contented state, Andr e is irresistible: intelligent, witty, charming. But Andr e is also given to sudden and unexpected mood shifts, the most terrifying of which is her transformation into the "Medusa Head"--a furious, irrational, overpowering figure who must be placated at all costs. Thus, Mary and Marie-Claire are drawn into Andr e's emotional labyrinth, from which they find it increasingly difficult to escape.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088922210X
• ISBN13: 9780889222106
• Release Date: February 1983
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"