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The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction: Lambda Literary Award (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679759522)
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xA groundbreaking volume from Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction presents a range of literary voices--from twenty-seven countries spanning six continents--and offers glimpses of lesbian life in unfamilar, often exotic climes. We follow an Irish woman as she travels through time in search of a wronged maiden, and anticipate the harrowing fate of a married Indian woman who pursues pleasure with her female lover under the shadow of her husbands suspicious rage. We meet a teacher in Barcelona who locks herself up in her grandmother's house with her young Columbian student, and witness a Slovenian woman's rendezvous with her long dead lover. This collection includes the work of familiar writers, as well as a number never before published in English. From the West Indies to Eastern Europe, the Middle East to Southeast Asia, Latin America to South Africa, the distinctive stories found in these pages evoke the diverse political, cultural, emotional, and sexual landscapes of each writer's life. A groundbreaking volume from the Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, who also wrote the introduction, this collections evokes the universal urgency of persistent desire.
Author: Naomi Holoch
ISBN-10: 0679759522
ISBN-13: 9780679759522
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1999
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.24w x 0.87d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 82
Publishers Weekly 05/31/1999 pg. 65
Library Journal 06/15/1999 pg. 111
Booklist 06/15/1999 pg. 1786
Author: Naomi Holoch
ISBN-10: 0679759522
ISBN-13: 9780679759522
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1999
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.24w x 0.87d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner
Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 82
Publishers Weekly 05/31/1999 pg. 65
Library Journal 06/15/1999 pg. 111
Booklist 06/15/1999 pg. 1786
By Naomi Holoch
xNaomi Holoch is co-editor, with Jon Nestle, of the Women on Women series of anthologies of American lesbian short fiction and the author of short stories and a novel, Offseason. She teaches French language and literature, lesbian and gay fiction, and fiction writing at SUNY-Purchase.
Joan Nestle, author of the award-winning A Restricted Country and A Fragile Union and editor of The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, is also co-founder of the New York-based Lesbian Herstory Archives. Along with Naomi Holoch, she has edited three volumes of Women on Women anthologies. She also had the honor of working with John Preston on Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Talk about Their Lives Together. In 1996 she was awarded the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Lesbian and Gay Literature by the Publishing Triangle. For close to thirty years, she taught writing in the SEEK Program at Queens College, CUNY.
Joan Nestle, author of the award-winning A Restricted Country and A Fragile Union and editor of The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, is also co-founder of the New York-based Lesbian Herstory Archives. Along with Naomi Holoch, she has edited three volumes of Women on Women anthologies. She also had the honor of working with John Preston on Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Talk about Their Lives Together. In 1996 she was awarded the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Lesbian and Gay Literature by the Publishing Triangle. For close to thirty years, she taught writing in the SEEK Program at Queens College, CUNY.
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