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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. A portrait painter, a sculptor, a sound musician, a would-be writer -- these characters make choices, as Rule's title suggests, that sometimes leave others out in the cold, and sometimes provide a welcoming embrace.
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About the Author
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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- PublisherHarcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0151225788
- ISBN 13 9780151225781
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages339
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Contract with the world
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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 1970sa 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, Rule's 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 liveschoices that will have inevitable, sometimes tragic consequences.". Seller Inventory # 20305
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Hardcover first edition - First US printing. The fifth novel by this writer born in the United States, who chose to move to Canada and become a Canadian citizen. This follows a group of friends, artists, and lovers in Vancouver, BC in the 1970s, a time when gay and lesbian politics were just emerging. Margaret Atwood called this her "most outspoken and sensitively handled book to date." 339 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. (some short closed tears to dj). Seller Inventory # 89623
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