His Vision of Her

Republished after nearly three decades His Vision of Her is a cult classic that tells the story of obsessive love shifting sexual identities self-deception and ambition in the New York City art world during the 1980s. When Stephen manager of a chic Soho bookstore meets Gilberte a beautiful ambitious young photographer just beginning her career in New York he becomes obsessed with her. Stephen offers her a home in his loft when she has nowhere to stay and he soon becomes her trusted consigliere and lover. Seduced by her own early success Gilberte is determined to chase fame despite Stephens attempts to keep her under his control and focused on her art. Gilbertes rapid rise in the art world is aided and abetted by her collusion with Kristine the wealthy status-hungry woman who steals her away from Stephen and becomes her patroness as well as replacing him as her lover.As the more volatile aspects of the relationship between Stephen Gilberte and Kristine play themselves out the narrative explores the nature of love and jealousy art and integrity. It remains as relevant today as it did when it was first published in terms of depicting the undercurrents and fascinating characters who inhabit the center and the margins of the New York art world.