Review
"Snappy characters...witty dialog...page-turning prose...storytelling at its best! Fritscher's Laydia Spain joins Rita Mae Brown's fMolly and Dorothy Allison's Bone as one of the smartest, sassiest heroines in recent years." -David Van Leer,
The New Republic, NY, and
The Times Literary Supplement, London
"The Jack Fritscher whose voice sounds so true telling spunky Laydia Spain O'Hara's exuberant story of self-discovery. This good-natured romp through a more innocent time is as rife with honesty and life as A Confederacy of Dunces." -Richard LaBonte, A Different Light Books, SF, NY, LA
"The power of Jack Fritscher's previous books, Some Dance to Remember, and Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera, derives from their intense focus on...the 1970's and 1980's. The Geography of Women is a fine book, a delight...funny and relaxed...and told in a style that is part Mark Twain, part William Faulkner, part Rita Mae Brown, and part Dorothy Allison. This is a lively and surprising addition to the rich tradition of humor in Southern literature." -Jim Marks, Lambda Book Report, Wash, D.C.
"This novel is Fritscher's best work...reminiscent of great Southern writers. A truly touching story about difference and goodness, and why it's sometimes good to be different." -Edward Lucie-Smith, critic and author, Race, Sex and Gender, London
"Wonderful storytelling! The writing is as vivid as a fast-talking screenplay with music." -Armando Aguilar, Thrust Magazine, LA
"Fritscher's women glow with warmth. You feel their desires, needs, love, and-in the rhythm of the writing-the true beat of their hearts." -Mira Schwirtz, critic whose review of Fritscher's work appears in The San Francisco Review of Books
--This text refers to the
Kindle Edition
edition.
About the Author
JACK FRITSCHER'S 400 published short stories and feature articles have appeared in more than 25 magazines and in several anthologies of "Best-of-the-Year" stories. Of his 5 books of fiction, his best-selling novel,
Some Dance to Remember, has been named a classic comparable to novels by Gore Vidal and James Baldwin, and yet is popular enough that critics have called it "the gay
Gone with the Wind." His newest collection of fiction is
Rainbow County and Other Stories; his new novel is the romantic comedy
The Geography of Women. He is also the author of 4 nonfiction books, including the scandalous
Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera;
Love and Death in Tennessee Williams, his doctoral dissertation; the Anton LaVey centered
Popular Witchcraft; and the media-savvy
Television Today. He is a founding member of the American Popular Culture Association, and has taught creative writing for more than fifteen years at university. He is the recipient of both a Michigan Grant to the Arts and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His coffee-table photography book, published in England and titled
Jack Fritscher's American Men, is a completely progressive kind of photo art, because his pictures (each one a titled short story) are of actual American males with none of the usual coffee-table pics of haute models leaning in shadows holding hula-hoops. He is a deeply established artist who is writer, photographer, and video director whose work reflects sexuality, intellect, and real life lived in American popular culture.
