New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this 'wildly original' and prize-winning writer, described by Winterson as follows: "The three voices are Handel, a distinguished surgeon and one-time Catholic priest. Picasso, a young woman who wants to be a painter. Sappho, a poet, in 660 BC and now. The bawd in question is one Doll Sneerpiece, an eighteenth century whore.The book is set in an imagined future where the State has almost total control and where individual values count for nothing. The action takes place in a single day as the three travel towards the coast by train. Narratives that are separate gradually come together until by the end of the book, all three destinies have combined." 206 pp plus 9 pp of musical notations. ISBN: 0-679-441816.