Author(s): Russell Hoban

Fiction

Recently widowed and increasingly lonely, Roswell Clark, artist and inventor, has decided he needs a tattoo. His ideal image is that of a bat featured on an eighteenth-century bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum, but strangely, on a visit there, he encounters an antiques dealer, Sarah Varley, with a fascination for the very same bat. What can this mean? As romance develops between Roswell and Sarah, they discover that they both nurture similar ideas about art. And when a curious fragment of an ancient crucifix fetches up in one of Sarah