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In Contract with the World , the setting is Vancouver, and the time is the mid-1970s. Told from six different characters’ points of view, the novel describes the intersection between artistic motivation, personal fulfillment, and sexual politics. The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Jane Rule’s fifth novel more than twenty years after its initial appearance in 1980.
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Jane Rule was born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1931. She grew up in the Midwest and in California, where she graduated from Mills College. Rule moved to Vancouver in 1956, where she worked at the University of British Columbia, as did her partner Helen Sonthoff. Jane Rule's novels include Against the Season, The Young in One Another's Arms, and Memory Board. She lives on Galiano Island, B.C.
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Contract with the world
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980
ISBN 10: 0151225788
ISBN 13: 9780151225781
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1980
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Price clipped dustjacket has a coupe of short tears base of spine, front flap creased; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 339 pages; "Contract with the World follows a group of friends, artists, and lovers as they negotiate the shifting terrain of the 1970sā"a time when gay and lesbian politics were just emerging. Divided into six parts, the novel enters a world marked by desire, ambition, jealousy, and love. We follow these sexually adventurous thirty-something friends as they marry, divorce, take lovers, lose love, and never stop searching for personal and artistic fulfillment. Whether gay, straight, or bisexual, Ruleās characters are as much a product of the era that defines them as of the wise and foolhardy choices they make in their own turbulent livesā"choices that will have inevitable, sometimes tragic consequences.". Seller Inventory # 20305
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