Return to Lesbos (Femmes Fatales)
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (814 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558618317 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Enjoy the series: Bedelia; Bunny Lake Is Missing; By Cecile; The G-String Murders; The Girls in 3-B; Laura; The Man Who Loved His Wife; Mother Finds a Body; Now, Voyager; Return to Lesbos; Skyscraper; Stranger on Lesbos; Stella Dallas; Women's Barracks.. This treasure from the golden age of lesbian pulp fiction picks up where Stranger on Lesbos left off. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. But no amount of resolve can keep her away from a new lover, the boyish Erika who lures her back into the melodrama of lesbian life.Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. Deserted by her butch lover, Frances struggles to re-integrate into conventional married life
"Valerie Taylor stands out, for the politics and realism she packs into her tight little stories Taylor’s real subversion is to continue her heroine’s story in another book. Like Ann Bannon before her, Taylor unravels her earlier book’s hetero conclusion in a sequelthe tellingly named Return to Lesbos." Lambda Literary
There's something to be said Return To Lesbos by Valerie Taylor, though a sequel to Stranger To Lesbos, is a completely different read. I didn't particularly like the main character, Frances, in the first book and I don't particularly like her in the beginning of the second. She doesn't seem to be seeking love out so much as a place where she'll find people like herself. At first her desperation reeks of "anyone will do." That, however, . Great Pulp Writing my bachelor's thesis on lesbian pulp. Best book of the ones I've read, a believable story as well as lesbian sex scenes^^. Campy in the best way I picked up Return to Lesbos without having read its predecessor. It didn't matter just one bit. Valerie Taylor is funny, campy, and sexy - picking up where her lesbian pulp classics left off. And she doesn't miss a beat. The lines are too great not to be shared:"I honestly don't think an unhappy marriage ever made a lesbian out of any girl. It just brings out what's already there.""I'm not a good wife, she t