Terminal Velocity - Brossura

Boyd, Blanche McCary Mccrary

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0679750320 ISBN 13: 9780679750321

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998

Riassunto

A young, married editor from Boston finds herself swept up in the radical feminist movement and winds up in a California commune, where the movement begins to dissolve into factionalism and ultimately turns violent. Reprint. 17,500 first printing. Tour.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

The author of three novels and a collection of essays, Blanche McCrary Boyd is Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Connecticut College.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

0 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 love

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679750320
• ISBN 13: 9780679750321
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272