Tjadine E. Stheeman Libri

As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there--longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart--half tavern, half temple--stands Brokeland. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complications to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.

Dertig erotische verhalen (hetero en homo) van hedendaagse Amerikaanse vrouwelijke auteurs werden gerangschikt in de 'hoofdstukken' De relatie, Bijzondere erotische momenten, en Het verbodene. In die hoofdstukken zijn nog onderverdelingen gemaakt: intimiteit, eerste ervaringen, verwachting, speelsheid en humor, het lichamelijke, de context, macht, transformatie, groepsseks en anonieme seks. Achteraan is informatie over de auteurs opgenomen. De puur 'literaire' auteurs zijn in de minderheid. Vijf verhalen verschenen eerder in 'Zusters in de zonde'. Een gevarieerde bundel met veel gevoelig en inventief geschreven erotische verhalen. Jammer genoeg hebben sommige auteurs toch toegegeven aan de makkelijke manier om over seks te schrijven met voor de hand liggende terminologie. Op het omslag een lesbische liefdesscène, kleine druk.

In Jennifer Egan’s highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O’Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith’s life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe, a quest which yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love, and Faith’s lost generation. This spellbinding novel introduced Egan’s remarkable ability to tie suspense with deeply insightful characters and the nuances of emotion.