Dorothy Baker’s acclaimed 1962 novel features an explicitly identified lesbian protagonist, Cassandra Edwards. A brilliant, neurotic Berkeley graduate student, Cassandra navigates a deep emotional crisis rooted in her isolation as a queer woman in the early 1960s, a casual history of sleeping with women at university, and a profound, boundary-blurring codependency with her identical twin sister, whose impending heterosexual wedding she is desperate to sabotage.
Cassandra Edwards is brilliant, deeply unstable, and thoroughly miserable. A Berkeley graduate student avoiding her master’s thesis, she drives home to her family’s California ranch with one clear goal: to stop the wedding of her identical twin sister, Judith, to a conventional young doctor. Trapped in a 1960s society that offers no clear path for her identity as a gay woman, Cassandra views her sister’s marriage as the ultimate abandonment. Armed with a sharp wit, an unquenchable thirst for brandy, and a purse full of pills, Cassandra unravels over a tense weekend as she fights to cling to the only person she has ever truly loved.
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| ISBN: 9781911547297 |
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| Genre: Fiction |
| Subject(s): Literary; Literature & Fiction |
| Publication Date: 2018-07-19 |
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| Publisher: Daunt Books |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 224 |
| Rating: Good |
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| Book_ID: 107643 |