Don Juan in the Village - Softcover

DeLynn, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852422270 ISBN 13: 9781852422271

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 1991

Synopsis

The nameless heroine of Don Juan in the Village goes to many places - from the lesbian bars of New York to the back streets of Fez and the calm ocean depths of a Caribbean island and through many moods - the exhilaration of sex, the obsession of narcissism and the enforced sobriety of the AIDS years. DeLynn has ceated a memorable character whose identity is more than the sum of the bars she has cruised and the women she has fucked. Usurping and enriching a male myth, she comes to an acute understanding of what it is to see oneself as an individual.

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Review

Explores the elusive intersection of vanity and desire (Alix Kates Shulman ?DeLynn brings a distinctive, eloquent and discerning voice - by turns diffident, bold, self-mocking, biting - to the universal quandaries of love... Sexual descriptions are explicit the literary quality is high? Publishers Weekly)

Synopsis

In search of an idealized lover, the heroine of this novel finds instead a series of wrenching, sometimes hilarious encounters with a diversity of women, among them a movie star and a poet, as she makes her way from New York's Greenwich Village to the idyllic retreat of a Caribbean island.

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1852422270
• ISBN 13: 9781852422271
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256