A Cold Wind in August

Book excerpt: THE DARING AND INTIMATE CLOSE-UP OF A RECKLESS LOVE AFFAIR. Her body was an artistic triumph... Whatever it is that sends men to theatres, burlesque houses, night clubs, she had it. And she used it to become a star. There had been many men in her life. She married three, and had had affairs with countless others. But each encounter began and ended the same way—she was alone, lonely, unfulfilled. She had risen to the top of her profession as an outstanding sex symbol, but sexual love was something she had never found. Then she met Vito.