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Chloe and Hugh do eventually meet and make love, but this romantic moment quickly pales beside other, pressing concerns. The hospital administrator assumes that Chloe is a spy. A weekend jaunt to a nearby cave yields a dying man and then, in short order, a corpse for which none of the local authorities will accept responsibility. Chloe begins to suspect Hugh of working for the CIA, and numerous new acquaintances of being informers for SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. She rashly hands over her passport to an Iranian woman who wants to break out of her arranged marriage...
Corporate Editor: Ray Cave...
...crisscross pile of bones into my hand. They're a creamy pebble grey, polished and crisp. Dave explains the significance of each tiny detail as I tick a fingernail across notches and etched grooves. My fingers and eyes draw me into a miniature world of texture--a jagged cave about a millimeter across signifies a breast bone; a ball-bearing sized nub, an ankle...
Such success brings a little creature comfort for Hamnett, Sam and young William (born in 1981), like the getaway cottage the family keeps in Majorca. It also permits the designer an occasional indulgence (her North London office, walled round with papier-mache rock, looks like Plato's cave built from a prefab kit) and a healthy dose of esthetic restiveness. "I try to be creative and earn money at it," she says. "But it's like being a painter and having a gun pointed at you. I envy Marcel Duchamp for just stopping. Though he had a rich wife." Hamnett...
Corporate Editor: Ray Cave...