The God of Nightmares (Paperback)

Vividly rendered...haunting....[Paula Fox] writes with silken ease and a sensitivity to nuance."—Newsday

In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with a bohemian group of intellectuals, she discovers romance and sex, friendship and risk, her world mirrored by the steamy mystery of the French Quarter.

"Wonderfully rich."— New York Times Book Review

"[Fox] knows how to pace a story, how to use the richest language to portray the barest of scenes. And she knows how to create a character."— Vogue

"One of America's best novelists."—Shirley Hazzard

"Haunting, lyrical....A coming-of-age outing stamped with a mastery that less mature writers can only hope to eventually achieve."— Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"One of our most intelligent...contemporary novelists."— The Nation