"Blood Memoir is a story of artistic creation, rooted in a fantastic and sensual New York of the recent past and immediate future, where philosophy, dreams and myth meet drink, sex, and death. A struggle for life and freedom emerges through a letter to the brother of a strong, other-seeming woman from her anonymous lover. It is this hypnotic woman who conjures up Newton, Ptolemy, Baudelaire and a host of still more brilliant ghosts in a geography of desire that reaches across the city.

Her lover sets out to learn whether her magnetism lies in these figures and their shrewd insights or in some secret of her own that awaits discovery."--BOOK JACKET.