Futcher, Jane Crush ISBN 13: 9781555836023

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Hope, joy, and pain intertwine in this wonderful teenage lesbian romance. "The characterization is outstanding: the hurt, bewildered Jinx... and the smooth, calculating headmaster. Lexie is a superb portrait of a fascinating... personality."--Horn Book

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I was born on February 27, 1947, in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. My first paid writing job was creating live, multi-media high school assembly programs for Rick Trow Productions in Philadelphia.  In 1973 I moved to New York City to work at Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., where I produced multi-media programs for school audiences. San Francisco was my next stop. There, I wrote Crush on a Hermes typewriter at an oak table by my window on Webster Street. Little, Brown and Company, published Crush in 1981. That same year, Holt, Rinehart and Winston published Marin: The Place, The People, a profile of Marin County, California, with photography by Robert Conover. From 1983 to 1995, I worked as a massage therapist, English teacher and freelance journalist, writing mostly for Plexus, the San Francisco Chronicle and The Slant, a Marin County LGBT newspaper that I helped launch and edit. In 1991, Avon Books published my second novel, Promise Not to Tell, a story about an unhappy teen-aged boy who helps a friend in desperate trouble, creating more trouble along the way but learning a lot about kindness, friendship and the criminal justice system.  I joined the staff of the Marin Independent Journal in 1995, working first as an editorial writer and later a reporter. In 1997, Alyson Publications published Dream Lover, a novel about the improbable affair of two former school friends who fall in love as middle-aged women.  My life took an unexpected turn in 1999, when my partner and I bought one hundred and sixty acres in the mountains of northern Mendocino County. We moved there permanently in 2004, leaving the suburbs behind and learning to love rattlesnakes, bears, coyotes, marijuana growers and each other. Women Gone Wild, released by Women Gone Wild Press in 2012, is the true story of our adventure.  I'm very pleased to be publishing this new edition of Crush, with an introduction by author and psychotherapist Dr. Marny Hall. Crush was one of the first novels of our time to go inside the mind of an adolescent girl in the sexual thrall of another girl. Caught in an endless loop of expectation, shame and self-recrimination, Jinx Tuckwell ricochets between what society expects of her and her fear of losing her heart's desire. To say "no" to the seductive, passionate and unpredictable Lexie Yves becomes tantamount to denying the profound feelings that both trouble and excite Jinx. She can no more refuse Lexie that than she can flip off the stern and punitive headmaster who discovers their secret.  So, enough about me. I'd love to know something about you and how you happened to read Crush. You can find me at janefutcher.com.
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CRUSHbyJane FutcherA classic lesbian novel with a new introduction by Dr. Marny Hall, author of The Lavender Couch and The Lesbian Love Companion.***It wasn't easy fitting in at an exclusive girls' boarding school like Huntington Hill. But in her senior year, Jinx finally felt like she belonged. Lexie--beautiful, popular Lexie--wanted her for a friend. Just being near her new friend made Jinx feel dizzy and wonderful.Jinx knew she had a big crush on Lexie, and that she had to do something to make it go away. But Lexie had other plans--and Lexie always got her way.***"Jane Futcher has tried to present the confusing, terrifying dilemmas that accompany any step out of the narrow band of acceptable behavior that society tolerates. The emotional facts of this novel ring true. One of the best." Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina, from New York Native."A wonderful lesbian romance, rich with developing sexuality and attraction with the ins and outs, true pain and joys of adolescent love. I wish I had read it in high school." Carol Seajay, founder of Old Wives Tales Books and Feminist Bookstore News."Absolutely wonderful--compelling, humane, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, beautifully written, and wise." Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird, on Jane Futcher's Dream Lover. ***Jane Futcher is the author of Crush, Promise Not to Tell, Dream Lover, Marin: The Place, The People, and Women Gone Wild, a memoir about moving to northern Mendocino County, California, where she lives. She grew up in Baltimore, MD.

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  • PublisherAlyson Pubns
  • Publication date1994
  • ISBN 10 155583602X
  • ISBN 13 9781555836023
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  • Number of pages248
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