Whisper their love / Valerie Taylor.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Little sister's classics ; #7Publication details: Vancouver, BC : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006.Edition: 1st Arsenal Pulp Press edDescription: 260 p. : port. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781551522104
  • 1551522101
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3570.A957 W48 2006
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Whisper Their Love -- Appendices. An Interview with Valerie Taylor by Irene Wolt ; Poems ; "Valerie Taylor: Writing since the 1950s and Still Going Strong" by Kate Brandt.
Summary: "Joyce is eighteen, a freshman at a fashionable school for girls; suddenly all that matters to her is a woman twice her age. ... [P]ublished as a mass market paperback in 1957 and is widely considered a historic milestone for its openly lesbian, feminist content, which shocked many readers at the time. It has been described as an 'anti-romance novel' for its grounding in the reality of lesbian experience. [It] was the first lesbian novel by Valerie Taylor... it sold an amazing two million copies. This new edition ... includes an appendix of historical materials about the book and author, as well as an introduction by Barbara Grier, co-founder of ... lesbian publisher Naiad Press."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- Introduction -- Whisper Their Love -- Appendices. An Interview with Valerie Taylor by Irene Wolt ; Poems ; "Valerie Taylor: Writing since the 1950s and Still Going Strong" by Kate Brandt.

"Joyce is eighteen, a freshman at a fashionable school for girls; suddenly all that matters to her is a woman twice her age. ... [P]ublished as a mass market paperback in 1957 and is widely considered a historic milestone for its openly lesbian, feminist content, which shocked many readers at the time. It has been described as an 'anti-romance novel' for its grounding in the reality of lesbian experience. [It] was the first lesbian novel by Valerie Taylor... it sold an amazing two million copies. This new edition ... includes an appendix of historical materials about the book and author, as well as an introduction by Barbara Grier, co-founder of ... lesbian publisher Naiad Press."--Jacket.

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