San Francisco: Mercury House, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel in which two stories, a century apart, but linked by one family's secrets. It focuses on "the art worlds of the French impressionists and today's L.A. museums. [We] see the impressionists through quotations from art books and a collection of letters by Vernais, a fictional protege of Pissaro and Degas; the L.A. art scene is viewed through the eyes of Jesse Kelton, a failed painter who works as a museum restorer, and of his friend Julien Marchat, great grandson of Vernais's arch-enemy." (Publishers Weekly) 329 pp. ISBN: 0-916515621.