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In this first novel about a young woman's search for self-esteem, there is less porn than there is pot-shotting at the iconography of academe. In the 1960s Eleanor Nyland teaches Basic ("Bonehead") English at a university in "Middle America" where she lives with her husband, Frank, a rising star in literary criticism. When the philandering Frank leaves her for greater fame and more assertive women, Eleanor continues teaching, sits on various committeesusually as secretaryand with the encouragement of an old college roommate, begins work on a novel of feminist pornography. While she tries to figure out what pornography should mean when written for and by women, Eleanor is drawn into campus battles over war, sex and faculty issues. Although the men here remain mostly entertaining stereotypes, Eleanor becomes a more appealing figure as she slowly develops wisdom, humor and self-confidence.
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At 26, Eleanor Nyland is dumped by her womanizing professor husband and left teaching Basic (aka "Bonehead") English at a university in Middle America (aka "Podunk") in the late Sixties. So she starts writing pornography from a female perspective, a genre being solicited by a certain minor publisher. Plans for her doctoral dissertation on Wordsworth fade; besides her writing, she has a slot on a faculty committee, a part in the campus peace movement, various mild flirtations, an amorous but anonymous secret admirer, and an invitation from her ex. But pornclass porn, to be surewill prevail. Eleanor is an insecure Everywoman who learns the rules in a hurry, if sometimes inadvertently, and her first-person storystudded with passages of her pornographic proseis as funny as it is victorious. A winning first novel. Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., Va.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherCrossing Pr
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0895942380
- ISBN 13 9780895942388
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages268
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Class Porn: A Novel
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: As New. Feminist Series. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8", is like new. 268 pages. "In this first novel about a young woman's search for self-esteem, there is less porn than there is pot-shotting at the iconography of academe. In the 1960s Eleanor Nyland teaches Basic ("Bonehead") English at a university in "Middle America" where she lives with her husband, Frank, a rising star in literary criticism. When the philandering Frank leaves her for greater fame and more assertive women, Eleanor continues teaching, sits on various committees, usually as secretary, and with the encouragement of an old college roommate, begins work on a novel of feminist pornography. While she tries to figure out what pornography should mean when written for and by women, Eleanor is drawn into campus battles over war, sex and faculty issues. Although the men here remain mostly entertaining stereotypes, Eleanor becomes a more appealing figure as she slowly develops wisdom, humor and self-confidence.". Seller Inventory # ABE-1691904104241
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