Life Savings
Linnea A. Due
Marcia Lanier has joined with a group of other forty-something lesbians to renovate an old house in a poor Berkeley neighbourhood. Caught up in California’s real estate fever, these old friends dream of doubling their investment in a few months of hard work. But things don’t go as planned, and Marcia soon finds that the life savings she’s invested involves more than the few thousand dollars she had in the bank..
Embarking on a passionate new affair and enduring earth-shaking turmoil at home, by the time the deal is made, she will risk everything she has friendship, love and self-respect.
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From Publishers Weekly
Following a group of lesbians in their 40s who join together to purchase, renovate and then quickly sell a house in San Francisco, this novel raises important questions about money, power and social responsibility. Mostly, however, it entertains. Each character is carefully drawn, with her own quirks, flaws and personal history, and the group dynamics become intensified when the principals must hire a group of four younger women in order to finish the house in a hurry. The narrative closely tracks Marcia, one of the principals, as she struggles to reconcile social responsibility with gentrification, and also to rebuild her personal life by embarking on a new relationship. Marcia’s sexual proclivities run to masochism, and her first erotic reveries here center on being slapped the night before by her lover. She also is a recovering alcoholic, an ex-smoker and the next-door neighbor of a teenage boy in need of a great deal of guidance. Marcia deals realistically and thoughtfully with each of the conflicts pulling at her in this endearing story. Due wrote High & Outside.
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| ISBN | 933216890 |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Copyright Date | 1992 |
| Publication Date | Oct-92 |
| Publisher | Spinsters Ink Books |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 250 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| BookID | 7397 |
