{"product_id":"diana-diana-frederics-9780814726327","title":"Diana: A Strange Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is the unusual and compelling story of Diana, a tantalizingly beautiful woman who sought love in the strange by-paths of Lesbos. Fearless and outspoken, it dares to reveal that hidden world where perfumed caresses and half-whispered endearments constitute the forbidden fruits in a Garden of Eden where men are never accepted.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is how \u003ci\u003eDiana: A Strange Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e was described when it was published in paperback in 1952. The original 1939 hardcover edition carried with it a Publisher's Note: \u003ci\u003eThis is the autobiography of a woman who tried to be normal.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the book, Diana is presented as the unexceptional daughter of an unexceptional plutocratic family. During adolescence, she finds herself drawn with mysterious intensity to a girl friend. The narrative follows Diana's progress through college; a trial marriage that proves she is incapable of heterosexuality; intellectual and sexual education in Europe; and a series of lesbian relationships culminating in a final tormented triangular struggle with two other women for the individual salvation to be found in a happy couple. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In her introduction, Julie Abraham argues that \u003ci\u003eDiana\u003c\/i\u003e is not really an autobiography at all, but a deliberate synthesis of different archetypes of this confessional genre, echoing, as it does, more than a half-dozen novels. Hitting all the high and low points of the lesbian novel, the book, Abraham illustrates, offers a defense of lesbian relationships that was unprecedented in 1939 and radical for decades afterwards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diana Frederics,Julie L. Abraham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814726321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814726327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.80d","brand":"Diana Frederics","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425077870847,"sku":"9780814726327","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_608145f8-9951-4d59-8c91-7aaef2130849.jpg?v=1761536855","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/diana-diana-frederics-9780814726327","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}