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An eccentric, exotic photographer is drawn to a beautiful psychic
in a turn-of-the-century novel about love, possession, adventure,
and greed. At the close of the nineteenth century, wheelchair-bound
Augustus Auerbach's only interest is his extraordinarily lucrative
business: manufacturing and marketing pornographic photographs. His
outlook is forever altered, however, when one of his models
pressures him to attend a seance. It is there that Augustus meets
the medium Verena Swann, a beautiful widow who gives voice to the
long-dead spirit of his mother. At the time of her first encounter
with Augustus, Verena is close to nervous collapse, overwhelmed by
the demands of her clients who are half-mad with yearning for their
deceased loved ones. Her spiritual powers have begun to fail her,
and now forced to fake her public trances, she wonders if her
ability to converse with the spirits was ever more than
self-delusion. Though initially reluctant, Augustus embarks on a
series of private sittings with Verena, finding himself
increasingly drawn to her as much for personal reasons as for the
proof of immortality she offers him. Verena, meanwhile, is torn
between three men: Augustus, the millionaire pornographer; Captain
Theodore Swann, Verena's adventurer husband, killed on an
expedition to the North Pole; and Leopold Swann, Verena's
brother-in-law and business partner, who has decided that their
next and greatest conquest will be Augustus himself.
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