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| | [a.a.] it's an escapade... |
 | | I was really slow on the uptake about Cather being a lesbian, but it makes for some interesting contemplation of the book when one finally reads the introduction (at the end-- I hate when they spoil the story) and reads between the lines of her "longtime friendship" with a woman, and her perpetually unmarried state. |
 | | (I knew Archbishop was on a gay literature list, but I thought this was because of the homoerotic subtext, not because, duh, Cather was gay.) The story of a pioneer girl with whom the protagonist, Jim Burden, grows up, is largely autobiographical. |
 | | This is a good one, though, since it is on three of the four lists. |
| www.mopie.com /booklist.html (4763 words) |
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