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II Magdalen

Emma H.
Emma H. was an enigma; a beautiful rich girl with the world at her feet, she had been a devout Catholic whose beauty seduced all classes and types of men. Flirting first with communism, then with fascism, she had been shot as a collaborator in a summary execution in Belgium in 1945, at the tender age of nineteen. Nearly forty years later, Henning Forsell is invited to Belgium by Emma’s aunt, who wants the truth about her niece’s execution, carried out almost a year after all such retributive acts had ended. She knows that four men were involved, she knows who three of them were, but what she wants to know is why...

Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-67-2 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95   More Info...
Emma H
Lennie & Vance & Benji
II Magdalen's third novel is loosely based on a true case of homosexual rape in a small Arkansas town. Not for the squeamish, the book touches on some deep and troubling issues: the nature of childhood sexuality, adolescent 'innocence', violence and voyeurism. Brief, provocative, troubling.

Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-46-X Pages: 190 8˝"x5˝" US$ 12.95   More Info...
Lennie & Vance & Benji

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