For young Joyce Ecco, walking into a particular New York hotel room overlooking Central Park is pure wish-fulfillment. She has been granted an interview with Zena Beth Frazer, the most famous – and notorious – lesbian writer in America. Notorious not just for the legendary pioneering vision of her work but for her sexy attractiveness, her outrageous wit, her in-your-face aplomb with the nation’s media. Not to mention her sensational affair with a world-famous woman sports star.
The interview leads to another encounter with Zena Beth – this one the fulfillment of Joyce’s every erotic fantasy. Soon she is invited to the lesbian writer’s home in th South. But if she joins Zena Beth, the price will be immense: her relationship with lover Elaine, and a promising career as a journalist in the dynamic world of New York publishing.
Will she pay the price? Would you?
Genre: Erotica
Subjects: Fiction / Lesbian; Lesbians - Fiction; Women Journalists/ Fiction
Publication History
| ISBN | 9781562800154 |
|---|---|
| Copyright Date | 1992 |
| Publication Date | July 1992 |
| Publisher | Naiad Press |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 209 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Not Rated |
| ISBN | 9781872642109 |
|---|---|
| Copyright Date | 1992 |
| Publication Date | September 1, 1992 |
| Publisher | Silver Moon Books |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Not Rated |
| ISBN | 1863733760 |
|---|---|
| Copyright Date | 1992 |
| Publication Date | September 18, 1992 |
| Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 160 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Not Rated |
| ISBN | 1562800302 |
|---|---|
| Copyright Date | 1992 |
| Publication Date | February 1993 |
| Publisher | Naiad Press |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Not Rated |
Comment
Love, Zena Beth (Naiad Press, 1992) is Diane Salvatore's second novel, after Benediction (1991). Joyce Ecco, a twenty-two-year-old New York reporter, is sent to interview Zena Beth, a thirty-nine-year-old writer who is the most famous, and most notorious, lesbian in America. The interview becomes an affair, and Zena Beth invites Joyce to live with her on her rural North Carolina ranch, at the cost of Joyce's relationship with her lover, Elaine, and her career in New York.
Publishers Weekly called it a bold account of a lesbian relationship and noted that it was only the third hardcover in Naiad's twenty-year history. Reviewing it in 1993 for the American Library Association's gay and lesbian round table newsletter, Martha E. Stone called it a roman à clef and a well-written, entertaining, lesbian-positive novel, though thin in its secondary characters. Salvatore was then an editor at Redbook.