Swallow Press first published Winter of Artifice in 1945, following two vastly different versions from other presses.
The middle, title story explores one of Nin\'s most controversial themes, that of a woman\'s sex.
It ends in the Manhattan office of a psychoanalyst--the Voice--who, as he counsels patients suffering from the maladies of modern life, reveals himself as equally susceptible to them.
The book opens with a film star, Stella, studying her own, but alien, image on the screen.
Swallow Press first published Winter of Artifice in 1945, following two vastly different versions from other presses