In Thrall - Hardcover

Delynn, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517541009 ISBN 13: 9780517541005

Publisher: Random House Value Pub, 1982

Synopsis

Seventeen-year-old student Lynn shares a lesbian relationship with her teacher, Miss Maxfeld, in a love affair that opens up a vivid new world for Lynn as well as unforeseen problems and guilt feelings

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Review:

Dear Miss Maxfield, Just in case you don't know, I am in love with you....; ""A dazzling novel.... The most obvious comparison is Holden Caulfield and The Catcher in the Rye.... The single most wonderful quality of this novel is its absolute credibility. This book is going to have a long, long life."" - Los Angeles Times Book Review; ""One of the 100 best gay and lesbian novels of all time."" - Publishing Triangle

About the Author:

Sixteen-year-old Lynn writes her thirty-seven-year-old English teacher a letter, and together they embark on one of the funniest - and saddest - love affairs in fiction, shrouded in secrecy and guilt. This is the early 1960s, years before gay liberation, when all Lynn knows about ""lezbos"" is that they wear their hair in crew cuts. In her desire to appear ""normal,"" Lynn continues to make homophobic jokes and necks with her boyfriend. This is a witty and poignant novel. Jane DeLynn is the author of the widely acclaimed novels Leash, Real Estate, and Some Do. Her work has appeared in Paris Review, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, New York Times, New York Observer, and Tikkun, and she lived in Saudi Arabia as a correspondent for Mirabella and Rolling Stone during the first Gulf War.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Value Pub
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0517541009
• ISBN 13: 9780517541005
• Binding: Hardcover