Winter of Artifice is a collection of novelettes: 'Stella, ' 'Winter of Artifice, ' and 'The Voice.'
Swallow Press first published Winter of Artifice in 1945, following two vastly different versions from other presses. The book opens with a film star, Stella, studying her own, but alien, image on the screen. It ends in the Manhattan office of a psychoanalyst-the Voice-who,...