Collages

"Making a rapid escape from her sick father in Vienna, Renate begins her sensation-seeking travel odyssey accompanied by a gay Norwegian man who allows her to open one of his Chinese boxes and read a chapter of his past each time she finds his absence unbearable. Moving from Mexico to California Renate works as a hostess at a beach nightclub, where she befriends Nina, who wants to wash the floor with beer, uses her dress as a tent and does witch-laughter for radio." "Rather than a coherent whole Collages is a series of impressions, a shifting notebook indelibly inscribed with Nin's humour, invention and unrivalled gift for sensuous description."--Jacket.