The Love of Good Women
- 224pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
Complex family novel including the involved coming-out
Isabel Miller Libri
Isabel Miller, pseudonimo di Alma Routsong, è stata una romanziera americana celebrata per i suoi contributi alla narrativa lesbica. Il suo lavoro esplora temi di amore, identità e costrizioni sociali, spesso attraverso la lente di protagoniste femminili avvincenti. La prosa distintiva e l'approccio narrativo di Miller creano storie profondamente toccanti su relazioni e scoperta di sé. Il suo romanzo più acclamato, inizialmente pubblicato nel 1969, è diventato una pietra miliare della letteratura lesbica, sottolineando l'eredità duratura della sua voce letteraria.
Patience And Sarah
- 240pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, a painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another.First self-published in 1969 (titled A Place for Us) in an edition of 1,000 copies, the author hand-sold the book on New York street corners; it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association's first Gay Book Award in 1971. McGraw-Hill's version of the book a year later brought it to mainstream bookstores across the country.Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the 1960s and early 1970s. It celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today.Features an appendix of supplementary materials about Patience & Sarah and the author, as well as an introduction by acclaimed novelist Emma Donoghue.
Die Autorin des Klassikers „Patience & Sarah“ präsentiert eine wunderbare Liebesgeschichte aus den bewegten sechziger Jahren: Patricia und Sharon wachsen zusammen auf, werden aufgrund ihrer „unnatürlichen“ Liebe zueinander getrennt und treffen sich als junge Frauen, geprägt von Vietnam-Protest, Flower Power und schwullesbischem Aufbruch, in New York wieder.
Mit hinreissenden Witz erzählt die Autorin am Geschick der verschüchterten Trude, die zur pfiffigen Gertrude wird, die Geschichte vieler Frauen.
