![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For this is a short, hermetic book, a two- character chamber drama, set in 14th-century France, that takes place mostly inside a wagon. The notion that she was considered one on the basis of Forever Amber brought a mildly embarrassed laugh from the author - now a trim and healthy- looking 67 - in an interview in her East Side apartment.Įven so, readers expecting a voluptuous clone of Amber, a bawdy, lusty costume epic, filled with plagues, conflagrations and people, are likely to be surprised, if not disappointed. At least, that’s one conclusion to be drawn from the book that finally has been published, Robert and Arabella (Harmony, $14.95), which may yet cause Winsor to live up to her legend as a sexy writer. In the unlikely event that it had been published during that censorious era, there would have been so many ellipses the novel might have been mistaken for a Morse code handbook. The problems with her second book, however, weren’t so easily solved. Winsor insisted at the time that her story of a hot-blooded courtesan in Restoration England had only two sexy passages, both of which her publisher had replaced with ellipses. mails for obscenity, among a multitude of other sins real or imagined. She finished a first draft, then set it aside during the uproar over Amber, which, as expected, turned out to be 1944’s wickedest best seller - banned from the U.S. Forty years ago, while waiting for her cautious publisher to bring out Forever Amber, Kathleen Winsor started to work on a second novel. ![]()
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