Ladders to Fire

"For Lillian, who crashes through a series of passionate male and female sexual relationships and one marriage, every new encounter is an invitation to emotional suicide. The obsessions of Djuna alchemize into an undiscriminating protective love with potential to transform ecstasy into catastrophe. Helen, driven by her fears and jealousies, will dramatize the smallest incident, while Sabina is truly treacherous - 'the first time one looked at her one felt: everything will burn.'"--BOOK JACKET.