1300 187 187
Living in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality: she's a 1970s feminist trying to succeed in a man's world. Janet is from Whileaway, a utopian earth where only women exist. And Jael is a warrior with steel teeth and catlike retractable claws, from an earth with separate-and warring-female and male societies. When these four women meet, the results are startling, outrageous, and subversive.
As hard and mean and fine as Flannery O'Connor. . . . I wish that everyone would read Joanna Russ' books. -Dorothy Allison, author of "Bastard Out of Carolina "
"Joanna Russ offers a gallery of some of the most interesting female protagonists in current fiction, women who are rarely victims and sometimes even victors, but always engaged sharply and perceptively with their fate." -Marge Piercy
"A stunning book, a work to be read with great respect. It's also screamingly funny." -Elizabeth Lynn, "San Francisco Review of Books "
"A work of frightening power, but it is also a work of great fictional subtlety. . . . It should appeal to all intelligent people who look for exciting ideation, crackling dialogue, provocative fictional games-playing in their reading." -Douglas Barbour, "Toronto Star "
ISBN: 9780807062999
ISBN-10: 0807062995
Series: Bluestreak
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 213
Published: 17th March 2000
Publisher: Beacon Press
Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 14.0
x 1.7
Weight (kg): 0.268
9am - 4pm AEST, Monday - Friday
