Women On Women
An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction
Naomi Holoch; Joan Nestle
—-
From Publishers Weekly
Nestle ( A Restricted Country ) and Holoch ( Offseason ) assemble 28 short stories and novel excerpts, some appearing in print for the first time here. Although uneven in scope and quality, these pieces feature a surprising range of lesbian women, from a Jewish grandmother to a 21-year-old self-described bulldyke. Several selections grapple with personal solutions to common problems, such as surviving the loss of a lover, addressed by both Teya Schaffer in ‘With Love, Lena’ and Becky Birtha’s ‘In the Life.’ In ‘When It Changed,’ a separatist fantasy from Joanna Russ, men reclaim a planet that women have quite contentedly inhabited alone for 600 years. Jess Wells’s ‘Aqua’ is a woman who, 16 years after her mother’s suicide, still fights to come to terms with that death and her own life. In ‘A Letter to Harvey Milk’ Leslea Newman draws parallels between the Holocaust and the assassination of Milk, a gay San Francisco politician. The open eroticism of a few stories and a conspicuous shortage of likable male characters may diminish the collection’s mainstream appeal.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Check for it on:
Details
| ISBN | 452263883 |
| Genre | Anthology – Fiction |
| Copyright Date | 1990 |
| Publication Date | 28-Apr-94 |
| Publisher | Plume |
| Editor | Naomi Holoch; Joan Nestle |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 320 |
| Series | Women On Women |
| # in Series | 1 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Editor | Naomi Holoch; Joan Nestle |
| Subject | Fiction |
| BookID | 14871 |
