Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0679448454, Hardcover)

A beautiful New York artist merges sex and aesthetics in a series of increasingly risque and risky performance pieces. She begins by luring rich men to surreptitious meetings she never keeps, then mounts an exhibit of photographs of the married men she has seduced, and finally hires a private detective to take clandestine photographs of her. But her final "creation" leads to more than she bargained for. The title story of this debut collection from Paul Griner is just one of 10 offerings that examine the lives of characters who struggle to hold themselves together despite loss, deception, anger, and regret.