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Terminal Velocity

Terminal Velocity

by Blanche Mc Crary Boyd (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $8.59

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    Paperback 1999

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

'In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint, or slept with anyone else besides my husband. A year later I had left Nicky, changed my name from Ellen to Rain, and moved to a radical lesbian commune in California named Red Moon Rising...' So begins Blanche McCrary Boyd's brilliantly raucous account of self-styled feminist outlaws, their desperate adventures and extraordinary fates. Ellen, the narrator of Terminal Velocity, goes to the heart of the sexual revolution in her quest to find a woman hero or, by default, to become one. A ferociously paced and deadpan funny journey into a new world without boundaries...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 23 Sep 1999
ISBN 10: 1852426438
ISBN 13: 9781852426439

Media Reviews
?Boyd seems to be able to write about that generation?without making them puppets or targets? Margaret Atwood ?It?s not often that you come across a true lesbian epic and this little number is no ordinary lesbian desert trek, lonely hearts yarn. This is a contemporary classic? Diva 'A bittersweet reflection on waking up a decade later with a hangover. McCrary Boyd is both funny and fiercely political? Guardian
Author Bio
Blanche McCrary Boyd is the author of The Revolution of Little Girls, Mourning the Death of Magic and Nerves plus a collection of essays: The Redneck Way of Knowledge. She is Professor of English and Writer in Residence at Connecticut College and a LAMDA award-winning author.