Contract with the World
by Jane Rule
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Told as a series of interconnected stories, Jane Rule's fifth novel--offering six characters' shifting perspectives--takes us to a place where feminism, creativity, and sexual politics collide Contract with the World follows a group of friends, artists, and lovers as they negotiate the shifting terrain of the 1970s--a time when gay and lesbian politics were just emerging. Divided into six parts, the novel enters a world marked by desire, ambition, jealousy, and love. We follow these show more sexually adventurous thirty-something friends as they marry, divorce, take lovers, lose love, and never stop searching for personal and artistic fulfillment. Whether gay, straight, or bisexual, Rule's characters are as much a product of the era that defines them as of the wise and foolhardy choices they make in their own turbulent lives--choices that will have inevitable, sometimes tragic consequences. show lessTags
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- Dedication
- For Shelagh Day
- First words
- Joseph Rabinowitz was puzzled about going crazy.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, LGBTQ+, General Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PR9199.3 .R78 .C6 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 7
