Lover's Choice - Softcover
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Lover's Choice takes the reader on short trips into the lives of eleven different women. Through her stories, Becky Birtha creates a sense of continuity by weaving strength, passion, pain, and ingenuity into each character. Ms. Moses makes clear that the government doesn't really help the poor: "Ain't no reason for you to be gaping at me. I pay my taxes, just like everyone else." Sahara "never wanted a man...Sometimes it seems she has spent her whole life finding ways to get close to other people's children." Camped out under the stars, she thinks back over those children and opens her heart to yet another one. Maurie questions her taste in women:"White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. The Bourgeoisie. What the hell was she doing in love with someone...like that?" And Johnnieruth, who can ride her bike as fast as the boys and resents her mother trying to rein her in because she's a girl, watches in a park as two women greet each other with a kiss on the lips. For the first time, she sees herself mirrored. Lover's Choice is unusual in its ability to show the interconnectedness of eleven separate lives. Becky Birtha makes the reader care for and relate to each character as an individual, and as part of the whole that we call woman. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. -- From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Sharon Canning
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- PublisherThe Women's Press Ltd.
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0704341174
- ISBN 13 9780704341173
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Uk Paperback Edition. Paperback. In stories that play upon the unexpected, the author describes the possibilities and problems of claiming an identity in a world that marginalises lesbians, women and black people. A poor mother takes her family on an all-night bus ride to keep them from freezing; and older lesbian mourns the loss of her lifetime companion; a fourteen-year-old tomboy discovers that there are grown up women like her. These and other stories come together to form a resonant and richly evocative collection. 152 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Seller Inventory # 077586
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Printing. A poor mother takes her family on an all night busride to keep from freezing;an olderlesbian mourns the loss of her lifetime companion; a fourteen year old tomboy discovrs there are grown up women like her.These and other stories come together to form a resonant and richly evocative collection. Seller Inventory # 009073
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Printing. A poor mother takes her family on an all night busride to keep from freezing;an olderlesbian mourns the loss of her lifetime companion; a fourteen year old tomboy discovrs there are grown up women like her.These and other stories come together to form a resonant and richly evocative collection.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Seller Inventory # 009074
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