A novel about the feminists and radicals of '60s-'70s at Berkeley. Pro women's gay and lesbian rights.

Some do

DeLynn, Jane

Collier Books

Some Do

MacMillan Publishing Company

From the lesbian bars of New York City to the back streets of Fez, from the S&M scene in Los Angeles to the calm ocean depths off a Caribbean island, the heroine of Don Juan in the Village is ever on the prowl. In search of the longed-for, idealized lover, she finds instead a series of wrenching, sometimes hilarious encounters with an array of women, among them a movie star, a moroccan prostitute, and a high school dropout who works as a grocery store clerk. Hip, sardonic, yet painfully self-conscious and often deluded, she is convinced that no matter where she goes or whom she is with, she is doomed to perpetual solitude and estrangement.

Don Juan in the Village: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

University of Wisconsin Press

"Dear Miss Maxfield…what I'm really afraid of is that I am a homosexual human being. I wish you were one too but I don't think it's possible there could be so many in one school, do you? –probably there is only one person who is homosexual in one place at one time and that one person (I am afraid) is me…."Sixteen-year-old Lynn writers her thirty-seven-year-old English teacher a letter, and they embark on one of the funniest–and saddest–love affairs in fiction: one shrouded in secrecy and guilt. This is the early sixties, years before gay liberation, when all Lynn knows about "lezbos" is that they wear their hair in crew cuts, buy suits like her father's, and sprout mustaches over their upper lips. Lynn, in her desire to appear "normal," continues to make homophobic jokes with her girlfriends, neck with her boyfriend, and play the innocent with her parents, even as she checks the mirror each night for the telltale signs of her "perversion."In this profound, witty, poignant, and highly charged novel, Jane DeLynn proves herself a writer of the first rank.

In Thrall: A Novel

REAL ESTATE

Ballantine Books

Don Juan in the Village

Don Juan, a smooth, arrogant, and insecure woman forever searching for the perfect lover, prowls the lesbian bars of the Village, the beaches of the Caribbean, erotic Italy, and elsewhere on her quest. Reprint.

Jack, an East Village artist, hides from his failures in the expensive but empty upper West Side co-op of his lover Lorraine, whose ex-husband and daughter round out a cast searching for satisfaction in material wealth

Real Estate

Poseidon Pr

Leash extends the logic of S&amp;M to its inexorable and startling conclusion, darkly and hilariously revealing the masochistic impulse as the urge to disappear from the chores, obligations, and emotional vacuity of daily life.
No more jobs, no more taxes, no more checkbook, no more bills, no more credit cards, no more credit, no more money, no more mortgages, no more rent, no more savings, no more junk mail, no more junk, no more mail, no more phones, no more faxes, no more busy signals, no more computers, no more cars, no more drivers' licenses, no more traffic lights, no more airports, no more flying, no more tickets, no more packing, no more luggage, no more supermarkets, no more health clubs... While her "current" spends the summer researching public housing in Stockholm, a moderately wealthy, object-oppressed, and terminally hip New York female of a certain age seeks adventure in the sedate dyke bars of lower Manhattan. Finding none, she answers a personal ad. She is ordered to put on a blindfold before the first meeting with the woman she knows only as "Sir." Not knowing what someone looks like turns out to be freeing, as do the escalating constraints that alienate her not just from her former life, but from her very conception of who she is. Part Georges Bataille, part Fran Leibowitz, this is the Story of O told with a self-referentially perverse sense of humor. Leash extends the logic of S&amp;M to its inexorable and startling conclusion, darkly and hilariously revealing the masochistic impulse as the urge to disappear from the chores, obligations, and emotional vacuity of daily life. First published in 2002.

Leash (Native Agents)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Semiotext[e]

In Thrall (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

World Literature

Bad Sex Is Good

Painted Leaf Pr

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