First edition of Taylor's triumphant sequel to her 1960 classic STRANGER IN LESBOS, offering stifled housewife Frances Ollenfield a second chance at love and freedom.
Fine.
Price: $175.00
"I don't need a psychiatrist. This isn't a mental illness, it's just the way I am."
Taylor's sensitive novel of escape from an abusive marriage into a world of possibility features an iconic scene of a bookstore's role in consciousness-raising and community connection: "Here were the Ann Bannon books side-by-side with Jeanette Foster's SEX VARIANT WOMEN IN LITERATURE; NORTH BEACH GIRL and TAKE ME HOME next to the Covici-Friede edition of THE WELL OF LONELINESS, dated 1928. Here, huddled together as though for warmth in an unfriendly world, were Gore Vidal and a tall thin volume of Baudelaire, translated by someone she had never heard of. Here were books in the field, for people with a special interest, a special orientation." Scarce and important.
First printing. (New York): Midwood-Tower, (1963). 7'' x 4.25''. Original pictorial wrappers. All edges tinted red. 189, [3] pages. Minor edgewear, slight spine creasing.
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