Word: flytrap
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...glittery Amanda, an ambitious historical novelist, and Julian, the cold, glittery millionaire publisher whom she lures to a marriage bed with no more than "her usual annoyance at the damage to her permanent." It is also the story of ever-maudlin Ken, a kind of tame Venus's-flytrap, whom Amanda keeps around less for biological than for decorative reasons. Ken might have gone on being a tame cat indefinitely but for a quiet little country mouse named Vicky ("I like furniture and houses all warm and used and kind"), who gobbled him up when Amanda was busy riding...