Rubyfruit Jungle - Softcover

Brown, Rita Mae

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140238689 ISBN 13: 9780140238686

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor southern couple who want something better for their daughter. Molly plays doctor with the boys, beats up Leroy and loses her virginity to her girlfriend in sixth grade. As she grows to realize she's different, Molly decides not to apologize.

About this title

Review

"Molly is as vivid and funny as Huckleberry Finn. Back in the late 1970s everyone in the Women's Collective at uni had read Rubyfruit, which is why Rita in Educating Rita is so named. It provoked snobbery then, and probably still now: a book that makes you laugh so much cannot be serious literature. But Rubyfruit has a lot of serious points to make and is great fun along the way" (Guardian)

"The breakthrough lesbian novel" (Washington Post)

"Tough-talking, tenderhearted" (New York Times)

"A bawdy tale about growing up lesbian" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

"I found myself laughing hysterically, then sobbing uncontrollably just moments later. A powerful story... A truly incredible book" (The Boston Globe)

Book Description

A classic lesbian coming-out novel about the determined, gutsy and inspirational Molly Bolt

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140238689
• ISBN 13: 9780140238686
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256