![]() ![]() ![]() To pick out the book, carry it to the counter and face the other shoppers and the cashier was tantamount to coming out. “Called trash by the literary world and pornography by the commercial world, Ann Bannon's books were hidden away on drugstore pulp racks. I would have dated Beebo, no question” Dorothy Allison And of course, there was her romantic portrait of the kind of butch woman I idealized. Her books come close to the kind of books that had made me feel fatalistic and damned in my youth, but somehow she just managed to sustain a sense of hope. I Am a Woman (the working and common title) featured Laura after her affair with Beth, as she finds herself in New York Citys Greenwich Village, and meets a. “When I was young, Bannon's books let me imagine myself into her New York City neighborhoods of short-haired, dark-eyed butch women and stubborn, tight-lipped secretaries with hearts ready to be broken. “Bannon's books grab you and don't let go” Village Voice Would she throw away her entire life on the one wild chance that she might find the lost woman out of her past?įollowing on from classic novels Odd Girl Out, I am a Woman and Women in the Shadows, Journey to a Woman finds Laura in love among the lesbian bohemia of Greenwich Village. Braggs wife Mary Ann became the prime suspect when it was discovered that he was killed between 4 and 6 am, given that neighbors claimed they saw the woman. Synopsis: The classic 1950s love story from the Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, and author of Odd Girl Out, I Am a Woman, Women in the Shadows, Journey to a Woman and Beebo Brinker ![]()
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