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Dark plums / Maria Espinosa.
Van Pelt Library PS3555.S545 D37 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Espinosa, Maria, 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Sexual behavior--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Women.
- Women--Sexual behavior.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Women--Psychology--Fiction.
- Women--Psychology.
- Genre:
- Psychological fiction.
- Erotic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 221 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houston, TX : Arte Publico Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- Dark Plums is Maria Espinosa's exploration of a young woman's search for love and self in Manhattan. Set in the late 1950s, Adrianne, a young girl from Texas, wanders the city and has sex indiscriminately with strangers. Her relationship with a Cuban-American artist, Alfredo, leads to further degradation as she agrees to work as a hooker in order to support his work as a painter. His treatment of her becomes increasingly brutal, and her suffering becomes so intense that she breaks down. But she ultimately emerges with the strength to leave him.
- ISBN:
- 1558851283 :
- OCLC:
- 31166771
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