Mantissa

Literature, love and lust collide as a writer meets his muse -- and his match -- in John Fowles's most slyly dazzling work of fiction. The writer: Miles Green, a novelist, who awakens in a hospital room, suffering amnesia. The must: Erato, who appears alternately as a doctor, a punk, a geisha, a nymph; by turns tender, critical, admiring, and bossy; engaging Miles in a wickedly entertaining and teasingly enigmatic dialogue of words and flesh.