The Broad Back Of The Angel

THIRTEEN STORIES ABOUT LOVE

In the "Magician in Love" stories a celebrated performer withdraws from the stage to devote his bizarre and wonderful talents to the keeping of a good woman's love. In the "For Love of" series a mysterious Mexican, descendant of Zapata, dresses up in a white suit to conduct purification rites for needy North American females. Elsewhere, a speaker for "Dangerous Women" sends out her signals from the love parlor to all potential lovers, while a nice guy named Rodin risks his neck struggling for "Friendship" through a pair of disarmingly innocent tales. Meantime, back at the nursing home, a beleaguered young patient discovers the key to "Iron Woman" and unlocks the gate for women everywhere. And in the title story a doomed paraplegic abandons his wheel chair and his closet philosophy to instruct Death's Messenger in the works of love.