Sister Gin / June Arnold ; afterword by Jane Marcus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnold, June, 1926-1982.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

236 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York : Distributed by the Talman Co., 1989, c1975.

Summary:

B B B Aging, lesbian consciousness, the difficulty of escaping from alcoholism-these are the themes of June Arnold's extraordinary novel, first published by Daughters in 1975. The novel stands squarely in the southern literary tradition, depicting with memorable hilarity a groupd of elderly female vigilantes who take local rape deference into their own hands. Critics and fellow writers have rightly lauded it as a classic of experimental fiction. It is also a unique exploration of menopause as rebirth. "Sister Gin is a tour de force about lesbianism and alcoholism, fat and feminism, rape and race, falling in love with your lover's mother's girlfriend, and it has the very best description of hot flashes in literature."-Jane Marcus

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-236).

ISBN:

1558610103 :

OCLC:

19672136