In Thrall
Jane DeLynn
Sixteen-year-old Lynn writes her thirty-seven-year-old English teacher a letter, and together they embark on one of the funniest-and saddest-love affairs in fiction: one shrouded in secrecy and guilt. This is the early 1960s, years before gay liberation, when all Lynn knows about ‘lezbos’ is that they wear their hair in crew cuts, buy suits like her father’s, and sprout mustaches. In her desire to appear ‘normal,’ Lynn continues to make homophobic jokes with her girlfriends, neck with her boyfriend, and play the innocent with her parents, even as she checks the mirror each night for the telltale signs of her ‘perversion.’ This witty, poignant, and highly charged novel proves that Jane DeLynn is a writer of the first rank.
From the Back Cover
‘All Lynn’s phobias, aversions, preferences, and hang-ups make her exaggerated but real and terrifically funny. The great triumph of this novel is that DeLynn has captured the way adolescents felt, talked, and behaved during the early 1960s.’-San Francisco Chronicle
‘A dazzling novel. . . . The most obvious comparison is Holden Caulfield and The Catcher in the Rye. It’s got real wit to it and an audacious originality. The dialogue is superb and the pace perfect. . . . The single most wonderful quality of this novel is its absolute credibility. This book is going to have a long, long life.’-Los Angeles Times Book Review
‘One of the 100 best gay and lesbian novels of all time’-Publishing Triangle
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Details
| ISBN | 299190145 |
| Genre | YA Fiction (Young Adult) |
| Publication Date | Oct-03 |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 264 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| BookID | 5923 |
