Green Bananas - Hardcover

Drinkard, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039457401X ISBN 13: 9780394574011

Publisher: Knopf, 1989

Synopsis

An aspiring Earth Scientist, asked to become a sperm donor for the director of a daycare school, must deal with his own feelings about fatherhood, the reaction of friends and family, and his attraction to the would-be mother's housemate

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

This love story about Sylvan, a Santa Cruz college senior majoring in Earth Sciences, and Phyllis, an "older" (27-year-old) lesbian who runs the day-care center where Sylvan works, is sometimes clever but generally too sophomoric to appeal to readers over 30. Phyllis wants a baby by artificial insemination; Sylvan wants sex. Along with some vividly goofy scenes between the mismatched pair, and between Sylvan and his small charges, is an antic convergance of beauty contestants, feminist protesters, stoned college kids, street crazies and a black street gang. Such highlights are offset by patches of stilted dialogue (" 'Boys! Alight and rest your saddles,' " says Sylvan's mother), silly subplots involving both parental and canine mating and secondary characters who are sketched rather than drawn. So this first novel is rather like its title, promising but not yet delivering a ripe product.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 039457401X
• ISBN 13: 9780394574011
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 225