A reflective novel of emerging lesbian identity, set in 1962. Shelby Camden is a young career woman who wonders why her engagement and impending marriage seem to constrict her to the point of depression and drink. Then she meets her new neighbor, the independent Fran Jarvis with whom she finds
Solitaire and Brahms
β Scribed by Dreher, Sarah
- Publisher
- New Victoria Publishers
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 233 KB
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Norwich, VT
- ISBN-13
- 9780934678858
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β¦ Synopsis
A lesbian romance set in the 1960s when such a relationship could lead to loss of job or apartment, even incarceration in a mental institution. The heroine is Shelby Camden, 25, a journalist engaged to a doctor, who discovers she is lesbian.
β¦ Subjects
Lesbians -- Fiction
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