Spider Girl.

PETER LEAR

Publication: Cassell, 1980, London

First edition. Signed. Fine in fine dust jacket. Second of three books using the name Peter Lear. Sarah Jordan is a beautiful and clever PhD researcher at an American university working with spiders. When Sarah was in adolescence she forced herself to conquer her basic human fear of spiders and now she loves them. Discovered by a documentary television team, she is groomed as a TV personality. On the giant nylon web built in the studio she feels strangely exhilarated. People begin to call her Spider Girl. Love and fear, courage and perversity, violence and neurosis are spun together in a sinister web.

Inventory Number: 10051