Lulu incognito

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"There was, after all, the mystery of Lulu. It was not a question of what she had done, or even what happened to her, but of who she was. She was so little known." And yet the girl named Lulu Peloquin, who works behind a candy counter at F. W. Woolworth. stands out in her very desire to avoid the attention of others. First she is noticed by Agnes Rohan, the druggist's daughter, who motives are not pure. Then it is the dashing man-about-town Mr. Rafferty, who sees Lulu as a fairy-tale damsel in distress and sweeps her off to the home of the town's wealthiest woman, the regal Mrs. Gansevoort. So begins Lulu's adventures in self-transformation, as she is drawn further and further into a demimonde where she finds herself a pawn in the games of people who will never really care to know her. "Raymond Kennedy's wrting has the touch of magic!" - The New Yorker "If it is a sentence Raymond Kennedy wrote, then it is a sentence an artist made." - Gordon Lish "Raymond Kennedy's chronicle of the destruction of a sensitive girl at the hands of a vengeful society queen and her slave-gigolo highlights this talented novelist's flair for atmosphere and his revelation of the murky recesses of the human psyche." - James Purdy