Following the breakdown of her marriage, Alex Duggins has returned to her picturesque hometown of Folly-on-Weir in the Cotswolds in order to start afresh. But you can't outrun the past, as Alex is about to discover when she stumbles across a frosted corpse buried in the snow. The subsequent murder i
Folly
โ Scribed by Brady, Maureen
- Book ID
- 108905094
- Publisher
- The Feminist Press at CUNY
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 250 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781558614154
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โฆ Synopsis
Folly is a working-class, lesbian novel about black and white women who go on strike in a North Carolina factory town--and two of them fall in love. Tillie Olsen said that this novel "speaks with an authenticity, a force, a caring that deepens and enlarges us." Jewelle Gomez noted that this is a novel about "work and passion," in which "women bond together for strength, for a better life, and for love."
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