Collects short stories reflecting lesbian generational outlooks and imagination by such authors as Donna Allegra, Nona Caspers, Judy Grahn, and Carla Tomaso.
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This anthology has a tremendous range. The first story, by Hannah Bleier, begins with a lesbian who gets an infection from a trick and ends with the same woman beating an obnoxious anti-gay neighbor. The prose is tough, lean, pointed. The second story, by Elizabeth Crowell, is about a long-term lesbian couple who discover that the gracious old lady who sits in front of them at the Boston Symphony is a lesbian. It's written with a wit and ease that is about as far as you can get from the first story. Terry Wolverton and Robert Drake, who have edited four other anthologies of queer fiction, have collected an impressive mix of new and established writers.
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The contributors to this fourth collaboration by editors Wolverton and Drake (His 2, LJ 6/1/97) identify as lesbians; their creations are defined not by their sexuality but by how they learn?with varying degrees of grace?to deal with change, loss, and death. In Wolverton's "Sex Less," Lesbian Bed Death does not come as a tragedy but as a relief and rekindles the question: If sexual activity defines lesbianism, where does that leave celibate lesbians? As shockingly as green toads appear, seemingly out of nowhere after rain in the desert, a middle-aged lesbian realizes the depth of her elderly parents' acceptance of her in Judy Grahn's "Green Toads of the High Desert." In "Breakfast at Woolworth's 1956," Ayofemi Folayan pulls off a difficult feat: getting in the mind of a white racist opposing integration. And in "Poker Face," Robin Strober explores the depths of political incorrectness: a sexual fantasy involving Wayne Newton. A couple of weak pieces don't detract from a generally pleasing anthology. Recommended for general collections.?Ina Rimpau, Newark P.L., N.J.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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