Hers 3: Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbian Writers - Softcover

Wolverton, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571199623 ISBN 13: 9780571199624

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1999

Synopsis

A third anthology in the Lambda Literary Award-winning series presents a new collection of short fiction by lesbian writers, including Emma Donoghue, Barbara Wilson, Judith Barrington, Donna Allegra, Natasha Cho, and Carolyn Clark, among others. Original.

About this title

About the Author

Terry Wolverton is the author of Bailey's Beads and Black Slip. She has co-edited numerous literary compilations, including the Lambda Literary Award-winning series His and Hers. She lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches creative writing.

Reviews

This third in an ongoing series matches the admirable range and stylistic variety of its predecessors. Wolverton (Bailey's Beads) and Drake include the works of 21 authors, among them Irish novelist Emma Donoghue (Kissing the Witch), poet Judith Barrington (History and Geography) and visual artist Catherine Lord. Most of their stories (as Wolverton notes) dwell either on childhood or on romantic love. In Ellen Hawley's "What We Forgot to Tell Tina About Boys," a sympathetic lesbian narrator wants to save her teenage niece from an abusive boyfriend: "A single drop of this child should be enough to save a world, although it isn't, somehow." Jane Thurmond's compassionate "Beauty of Blood" depicts an isolated lab technician who discovers love in her 30s. Pat Schmatz's funny, erotic leadoff tale, "Tokyo Trains," explains the joys of masturbating on crowded subways. Lord's "The Art of Losing" follows a romance through its sweet intensities, its 28 short segments almost prose poems. Decidedly stories about lesbian life, these are not only stories for lesbian readers. A few, like Carolyn Clark's "kays and exes" (set in "Club grrrl") even read like reportage, designed to explain a certain scene to outsiders. Those who follow gay/lesbian/queer fiction anthologies will find this one more varied, and better, than most. Other readers remote from Wolverton's target audience will nevertheless appreciate the manifold emotional truths, and modes of experience, offered here. (June)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571199623
• ISBN 13: 9780571199624
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Wolverton Terry, Drake Robert