Marble Goddesses and Mortal Flesh

"In his thirteenth book, David Madden returns to Lucius Hutchfield, protagonist of Bijou, his early masterpiece, and one of the most unforgettable characters I've had the pleasure to meet in fiction. Over the course of these novellas, Madden delivers four distinct episodes from Lucius's life, spanning late youth to middle age. Marble Goddesses and Mortal Flesh is equal parts comic, heartbreaking, suspenseful, meditative, erotic, romantic, nostalgic, always rich in character and sense of pl...