Outlander [Paperback]

Jane Rule (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Naiad Pr; 1st edition (February 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0930044177
• ISBN-13: 978-0930044176
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,384,398 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better than Most, March 26, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Outlander (Paperback)

I liked the essays better than the short stories...just my natural preference for nonfiction over fiction. There is considerable variety of lesbian lives portrayed and the stroies are interesting enough and written well enough to encourage me to try another.

5.0 out of 5 stars Reviews of OUTLANDER from the back of the book, May 3, 2008

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This review is from: Outlander (Paperback)

"In the Outlander stories, Jane Rule evokes a startling variety of lesbian lives with the sure-handed artistry that readers have come to expect from her work. In the essays following, she analyzes lesbian and gay concerns with a tough independence of mind that makes the true 'outlander.'"
-- Harriet Desmoines and Catherine Nicholson (Co-founders of Sinister Wisdom)

"These stories constitute together a powerful investigation into the many varieties of love between and among women. Jane Rule looks with a seasoned eye at the passions and pecadillos of lesbians, in twos, threes, and more. The combinations shift like patterns in a kaleidoscope, enlarging and deepening our understanding of what is possible among women.

The essays reveal the author's broad intelligence and balanced good sense on a number of subjects, some of them surprising.

Thanks to her for a rich collection, written (as she herself has described her relationship to her characters) with 'tenderness, severity and humor.'"
-- Sandy Boucher

The Naiad Press, Inc.
1981. 207 pp.