After Delores
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (819 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 052524641X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 158 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fine in Fine DJ.. Hardcover. Fiction, lesbian theme. NY 1988 first edition Dutton. Octavo, 158p., cloth
When the lesbian narrator's girlfriend Delores defects to the bed and Tribeca loft of photographer Mary Sunshine, the unnamed narrator picks up a Priscilla Presley look-alike at a gay dance who leaves an address book and a gun in her lap, tempting her to take violent action. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Schulman, a wry and passionate writer with an excellent eye for detail and ear for dialogue, has written a thoroughly up-to-date novel that makes Bright Lights, Big City and Less Than Zero seem thin and dated. The story is complicated and enriched by Coco, a Puerto Rican beautician who quotes Wallace Stevens and tells stories; by Charlotte and Beatriz, an older couple who might have been threatened by Charlotte's affair with Punkette and either of whom might have murde
Original & fun crime fiction K. French I read a lot of crime fiction, usually of the intense George Pelecanos/Dennis Lehane/Michael Connelly variety. I read this one several years ago on a recommendation. I found it different from anything else I've read. Funny without being cutesy, gritty in its own way without being overbearingly so. And how many novels are set (a little bit, anyway) in East Newark NJ, a town of about eight s. Fast reading, but not the best I've read Some might find this little novel "hilarious". I found it mildly amusing and somewhat contrived. The heroine is believable only if you place her age in her early 20s. The characters are shallow, and the reader is left knowing almost nothing about them except their sexual orientation. This book was given to me. Having read it, I would not recommend it for purchase. There is a lot of excelle. Great Read, a snapshot of a time and place with alot of feeling This book made me love and respect Sarah Schulman forever!This novel is a perfect memory of the old East Village as well as capturing 20's post breakup angst as well as exactly how it feels to work in a busy diner. And then it's kind of a noir-ish mystery. And the author's progressive politics are intertwined provocatively into the plot. Oh, and it's about being gay too.Maybe this book & S