SETTERFIELD, DIANE

THE THIRTEENTH TALE - Toronto Random House 2006 - - .



Vida Winter has spent six decades creating outlandish life histories for herself - all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who loved her most, remains an ever -present pain.

ISBN: 0-385-66284-X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
mystery