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The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories [Hardcover]

Margaret Reynolds (Editor)
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Book Description

August 26, 1993
An anthology representing the work of 33 women from Britain, Europe and the Americas. It ranges from 1897 to 1993, showing how women writers have explored in words what it is to be a lesbian. Featured writers include Orne Jewett, Woolf, Stein, Mansfield, Barnes and Winterson.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Viking (August 26, 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0670843210
  • ISBN-13: 978-0670843213
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,752,836 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars short stories from a variety of lasbian writers, November 3, 1998
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This review is from: The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories (Hardcover)
I loved this book . The stories in it are varied , but they are all wonderful . I have used stories in here for several proses for acting contests and have always gotten an excellent response. I recommend this book for anyone , man women gay or straight
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding anthology for any book collection, September 19, 2006
This review is from: The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories (Hardcover)
I bought this book for two authors I can not get enough of - Jane Rule and Joan Nestle.

Stories range from coming out , cross dressing, vampires, sci-fi, comic and of course romance.

32 stories from a tremendously diverse collection of authors dating from 1897 to 1993, including the terrific -

Emma Donoghue

Virgina Woolf

Jeanette Winterson

Anais Nin

Ann Bannon

Radclyffe Hall

Dorothy Allison,

Colette

Pat Califia

Isak Dinesen

Sarah Orne Jewett

Renee Vivien

Djuana Barnes

Rebecca Brown

Jewelle Gomez

Margaret Atwood

Anna Livia

Gertrude Stein

Dorothy Strachey

Also includes short-short author biographies and a comprehensive 22 page introduction.

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