Desert of the Heart - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0930044398 ISBN 13: 9780930044398

Synopsis

Evelyn Hall arrives in Reno wanting only to be left alone while she waits six weeks for a painful divorce from her husband. Once there she meets Ann Child - 15 years her junior, who is both a free spirit and a lesbian.
Soon Ann refuses to let the controlled but vulnerable Evelyn ignore the powerful emotions that begin to unleash inside her...
Immortalized for a whole new generation by the film Desert Hearts, Jane Rule's classic DESERT OF THE HEART is arguably her finest novel. Joyce Carol Oates called it an intelligent and utterly believable novel. Told with all the wit and skill of this fine novelist, the book stands as a classic of lesbian literature.

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Review:

"An intelligent and utterly believable novel."

"Cool, clear-eyed, compassionate and unsentimental."
-- "Globe & Mail"

"An intelligent and utterly believable novel."
-- "Joyce Carol Oates"

Book Description:

Regarded as a classic of lesbian literature and was groundbreaking when published in 1964.

About this edition

• ISBN 10: 0930044398
• ISBN 13: 9780930044398
• Binding: Paperback