Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian and Gay Short Stories
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Book Overview
George Stambolian, Terri de la Pena, Audre Lorde, Paul Monette, Edmund White and Jamie Manrique are among the writers represented in this collection of 40 contemporary lesbian and gay short stories. The lesbian and gay writers also represent a range of ethnic and racial backgrounds.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813320313
ISBN13:9780813320311
Release Date:July 1994
Publisher:Routledge
Length:452 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Very little new stories; some were taken from novels
Published by Bayou Boy , 29 days ago
This book is short stories written by gay and lesbian authors. I found the "now we print a lesbian" and "now we print a gay guy". This back and forth went on through the whole book and I found it annoying. A very few of the stories were original to this anthology. Almost all of them were taken from published material; some we over 80 years old. It would have been much more interesting if they had used brand new writers (they're out there) and thereby ALL of the stories would have been new. Just ok.
A Most Excellent Collection
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Writing culled from published material, 1982 to 1994, has a diverse selection of stories on many topics including - Childhood Growing Up Coming Out Finding community Families Oppression Resistance Bisexuality Relationships Friendships AIDS Aging Dying One of my favorite authors, Lee Lynch, is a contributor so I snapped this right up. My favorites were from - Audre Lorde Donna Allegra Armistead Maupin Terri de la Pena Jewelle L. Gomez Shay Youngblood Dorothy Allison Leslea Newman Lee Lynch Ruthann Robson Judith McDaniel Barbara Wilson Valerie Miner Jess Wells John Preston Edmund White Rebecca Brown Valerie Miner wrote an excellent introduction. I would have enjoyed a more thorough profile of contributors, especially those who I am not familiar with and perhaps a list of their other titles.
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