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For years a "lost" collector's item, here is the second novel from a brilliant young author testing her literary muscle, and it's bursting at the seams with Rita Mae Brown's trademark cast of characters and crackling quips. Written immediately after her classic Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day takes a loving swipe at the charged political atmosphere of Greenwich Village in the early seventies. Elegant art history professor Carole Hanratty insists brains transcend lust—until she crashes into Ilse, a revolutionary feminist flush with the arrogance of youth. Blazing with rhetoric, their romance is a sexual and ideological inferno. Ilse campaigns to get Carole to join The Movement, but forty-four-year-old Carole and her zany peers have twenty years of fight behind them and are wary of causes bogged down in talk. After all, says Carole's best friend, the real reason for a revolution is so the good things in life circulate. Her idea of subversion is hiring a Rolls-Royce to go to McDonald's. In Her Day, with its infectious merriment and serious underpinnings, proves that if politics is the great divider, humor is the ultimate restorative.
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In Her Day
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Penguin, Middlesex, England, 1978
ISBN 10: 0140700706
ISBN 13: 9780140700701
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Penguin Edition. VG, Edgewear, creases, foxing, browning. Lesbian feminist comic drama. Printed in Australia, with Australian price on rear cover. Photo on request. Seller Inventory # 036981
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 200 pages. Cover worn & scuffed, Spine faded, Text tanned. Foxing inside front/ end covers. A 1970s Greenwich Village novel exploring the intersection of lesbian romance and radical feminist politics. It follows Carole Hanratty, a 44-year-old art hi story professor, who becomes romantically involved with Ilse, a younger, intense. Seller Inventory # 6468q
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ISBN 10: 0140700706
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Written immediately after her classic Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day takes a loving swipe at the charged political atmosphere of Greenwich Village in the early seventies. Elegant art history professor Carole Hanratty insists brains transcend lust-until she crashes into Ilse, a revolutionary feminist flush with the arrogance of youth. Blazing with rhetoric, their romance is a sexual and ideological inferno. Ilse campaigns to get Carole to join The Movement, but forty-four-year-old Carole and her zany peers have twenty years of fight behind them and are wary of causes bogged down in talk. After all, says Carole's best friend, the real reason for a revolution is so the good things in life circulate. Her idea of subversion is hiring a Rolls-Royce to go to McDonald's. In Her Day, with its infectious merriment and serious underpinnings, proves that if politics is the great divider, humor is the ultimate restorative. Inscription written on first page 'Welcome home Tim, Love Anne'. 196 pages. Seller Inventory # 1462082
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