Spring fire / Vin Packer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Packer, Vin, 1927-2022.

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:

ix, 160 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Cleis Press, [2004]

Summary:

The original 1950s cover of Spring Fire blared: "A story once told in whispers now frankly, honestly written." The novel sold an amazing 1.5 million copies when it first appeared in 1952, more than other leading sellers of that year like The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Cain and My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier. Shameless and seductive in an era when lesbian lives were hidden from view, Spring fire chronicles the story of Leda and Mitch, two sorority sisters at a midwestern university who stumble into a forbidden love affair. While their romance ends unhappily -- in order to satisfy U.S. postal inspectors who would have seized shipments of a novel that affirmed lesbian love -- Spring Fire touched the lives of countless lesbian and gay readers and cleared the way for the hundreds of lesbian pulps that were to come.

ISBN:

1573441872

OCLC:

55665793