The world of Frankie, a stripper, is turned upside down when a mysterious fat man walks into her club and a siren goes off, and Frankie wakes up the next morning as a man.
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This lurid but ultimately unfulfilling exploration of gender identity paradoxically uses a single character to underscore the differences between men and women. After passing out drunk one night while dancing topless, Frankie de Leon awakens the next morning possessed by a man's personality. Shrugging this off as a manifestation of the alcoholism that has been consuming Frankie's life, boyfriend Terry Connor humors the confused stripper by helping him/her piece together the events of the last day. Frankie's change might involve some paranormal event that transposed her personality with that of a stripjoint patron who passed out at the same time. The author intimates the more plausible explanation of a personality disorder. Terry's patience with Frankie soon erodes. Frankie leaves, only to return after privately resolving to come to grips with his/her "new" body and to make Terry pay by exploiting his growing obsession with the stranger who used to be his lover. Blumlein ( The Brains of Rats ) is often perceptive regarding the condition of a male mind in a female body in a man's world, but he shows inadequate sensitivity to the plight of his hero/heroine and women in general.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Great idea, but not that successful,
This review is from: X, Y (Mass Market Paperback)
The opening is great. Right away the reader is thrown into confusion along with the main character as his consciousness is thrown into the body of a nubile stripper, and I love how Blumlein plays a bit with the methods of power women have over men. However, little is made of a real comparison of the processes and thoughts of men and women and how they differ. There is also an extreme lack of detail over the physical change. For example, I really wonder how this person dealt with their first period and if s/he ever had real attractions to men. If a person is biologically a woman, but mentally a man, does that make s/he gay if s/he has an attraction to men? More questions like these could have really elevated this book above what it is.There are attempts at moving beyond the commercial novel form with some insertions of medical texts that explain the transformation by blending reality and fantasy. Read in the right light, it does illuminate slightly on the interpretation of the text, but really does not move the story and will probably bog down less adventurous readers. As fresh and interesting as his short fiction is, I found Blumlein's novel a mild dissapointment.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
great concept, flawed delivery,
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The book has a great concept. After losing her memory, or maybe having switched bodies with a man, Frankie first has to gain her boyfriend's help in trying to get her back into the right body. The power dynamics of the relationship and how each tortures each other as they doubt each other is wonderful. But often the book gets bogged down with random medical documents in an attempt at grounding it and most of the emotional drive of the realtionship are underplayed or repeated over several chapters. An interesting try at a great concept though.
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