Description
Product ID: | 9781844086788 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
Title: | Desert Of The Heart |
Authors: | Author: Jane Rule |
Page Count: | 256 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Regarded as a classic of lesbian literature and was groundbreaking when published in 1964. Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English Professor, who goes to Reno to obtain a divorce and put an end to her disastrous 16-year marriage. While staying at a boarding house to establish her six-week residency requirement she meets Ann Childs, a casino worker and fifteen years her junior. Physically, they are remarkably alike and eventually have an affair and begin the struggle to figure out just how a relationship between two women can last. |
Imprint Name: | Virago Press Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2010-10-07 |