Women's Barracks (Femmes Fatales)
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (998 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 155861494X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tereska Torres (1923-2012) escaped Nazi-occupied France in 1940 and became a secretary to Free French leader Charles DeGaulle in London. Over her long career, she wrote some 20 books (novels and memoirs), with translations published here by Knopf, Dell, Simon and Schuster. Torres married the American literary figure Meyer Levin during the war; he would later translate many of her nove
Originally published in 1950, this account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million copies in the United States alone and many more worldwide. Women’s Barracks was banned for obscenity in several states and denounced by the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials in 1952 as an example of how the paperback industry was promoting moral degeneracy.” In spite of such effortsor perhaps, in part, because of themthe novel became a record-breaking bestseller and inspired a whole new genre: lesbian pulp.Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. As the Blitz rains down over London, taboos are broken, affairs start and stop, and hearts are won and lost. 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.. The novel is based on the real-
"The Many Flavors of Love" according to Rapscallion. I have the 1961 printing of this book with the very pulpy looking cover and the subtitle "The frank autobiography of a French girl soldier." That statement and some of the sensationalist marketing have doubtless led some readers astray. This isn't an autobiography. It's a novel that was. Excellent book on interpersonal relationships Marian Although this has been billed as "lesbian pulp fiction," that is not a very good description of it. While some of the characters are lesbians, others are straight. The book is, rather, a novel about women and their various relationships--friendships as well as romantic relationships. Ve. Bob Edelson said Not what you'd expect; a well written, serious story of women affected by world war II.. l was originally drawn to the book because of its sexual-historical positioning, but found it to be a very well written account of a group of French women war volunteers stuck in London away from their normal lives & lovesand the writing becomes more serious & heartfelt as it moves alon
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. It is, in fact, a moving and bittersweet tale of a tight-knit community of women, their loves and losses, hopes and despairs, with a charmingly modest salaciousness that runs through to justify its "pulp" marketing. . All rights reserved. Translated from the French (though never published in France), this heavily autobiographical tale of life in the Free French Army women's barracks in WWII London is a delicious blend of sex and melodrama that manages to be sentimental without ever becoming mawkish or campy. From Publishers Weekly From the