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Terminal Velocity, Boyd, Blanche McCary Mccrary
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 0679750320
- EAN
- 9780679750321
- Date of Publication
- 19980526
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- Terminal Velocity
- Artist
- Boyd, Blanche McCary Mccrary
- Brand
- N/A
- Colour
- N/A
- Book Title
- Terminal Velocity
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Lgbt / Lesbian
- Item Weight
- 8.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 260 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679750320
ISBN-13
9780679750321
eBay Product ID (ePID)
772457
Product Key Features
Book Title
Terminal Velocity
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Lgbt / Lesbian
Publication Year
1998
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
8.3 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
FIC
Synopsis
Can a nice plantation-bred Southern girl find her destiny as a radical lesbian and sometime fugitive? Well, yes, if the girl is Ellen Burns and the author is Blanche McCrary Boyd. In this wickedly transgressive new novel, Boyd follows the heroine of 'The Revolution of Little Girls' through the warped looking glass of the 1970s, when every orgasm was a political statement and heterosexuality could be termed an act of war., "In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint, or slept with anyone besides my husband. A year later I had left Nicky, changed my name from Ellen to Rain, and moved to a radical lesbian commune in California named Red Moon Rising, where I was playing the Ten of Hearts in an outdoor production of Alice in Wonderland when two FBI agents arrived to arrest the Red Queen . . ." So begins Blanche McCrary Boyd's brilliantly raucous account of self-styled feminist outlaws, their desperate adventures and extraordinary fates. Ellen, the narrator of Boyd's previous novel, The Revolution of Little Girls , this time pierces the heart of the sexual revolution in her quest to find a woman hero or--by default--to become one. Ferociously paced, Terminal Velocity delineates six wonderfully engaging characters: Artemis Foote, for whom being rich, talented, and beautiful is a kind of game; Jordan, a messianic fugitive who becomes Ellen's lover; Amethyst Woman, a Marxist/Leninist dentist; Ross, a red-diaper baby and now a columnist for Ramparts; and Pearl, an art history professor turned hippie. At the center of this vortex is Ellen, prior to her transformation happily married and a rising young editor at a genteel publishing house in Boston. Together with these women, she is caught in the political and moral tailspin of the Sixties, living in a sexualized world-without-boundaries that leads them, eventually, to destruction, acceptance, and even redemption. Deadpan funny and exquisitely moving, Terminal Velocity brings Boyd's lyricism, humor, and depth to material largely unexplored in American literature., Can a nice plantation-bred Southern girl find her,destiny as a radical lesbian and sometime,fugitive? Well, yes, if the girl is Ellen Burns,and the author is Blanche McCrary Boyd. in this,wickedly transgressive new novel, Boyd follows the,heroine of 'the Revolution of Little Girls',through the warped looking glass of the 1970s,when every orgasm was a political statement and,heterosexuality could be termed an act of war.
LC Classification Number
PS3568.O243
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