Item #66644 The Acephalic Imperial. Damian Murphy.

The Acephalic Imperial

Snuggly Books:
Sacramanto: 2020
First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED (card) Limited, New sans dust jacket as issued,
111 pp.


Card, signed by the author laid in. This edition limited to 80 copies. “Séverine takes a position as a live-in maid in a house of idleness and luxury. She’s informed during her interview that the cleaning and daily meals are already attended to by servants of long-standing. Her duties, which are very few, are as compelling as they are erratic. As it becomes increasingly clear that her employer is subjecting her to a tenuous game of provocation and transgression, she resolves to find out precisely how far his obsessions might be pushed. What follows is a narrative that revolves around a double axis—that of obedience and disobedience, explicit and implicit rules, loyalty and treachery, and the twin heads of the imperial eagle whose icon is found in every region of the house.” #66644

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