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Tipping the velvet / Sarah Waters.
LIBRA PR6073.A828 T56 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waters, Sarah, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lesbians--England--Fiction.
- Lesbians.
- England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
- England.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Lesbian fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Love stories.
- Erotic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 472 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- Nancy Astley, a fishmonger in Whitstable, becomes smitten by male impersonator Kitty Butler and attends shows until the star notices her, which leads to the two becoming partners in romance and performance until societal pressures drive the two into situations that embrace the ambiguity of sexual preference and gender roles.
- Notes:
- Lambda Literary Award, 1999
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Waters, Sarah, 1966- Tipping the velvet.
- ISBN:
- 1573227889
- 9781573227889
- OCLC:
- 44119281
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