The Lesbian Body. A novel

Back in print, this daring novel constitutes a rhapsodic hymn to women's bodies and women's relationships."That rare work in fiction . . . the art and the courage are of the highest level." —The Boston GlobeI l love how monstrous, gruesome and utopian this book is ... love that lesbian utopia is violently passionate, because that is what being a lesbian means: a violent exile from the symbolic order where subjectivity is simultaneously impossible yet always excessive. i am thinking of how current cultural representations of lesbianism (overwhelmingly feminine and all too pretty) lacks an understanding of this exile,-Goodreads On a fictional Sapphic island where women live exclusively among themselves, the narrator-protagonist, in a series of invocations to her lover and descriptions of the island's life, celebrates the contours, contents, and satisfactions of the lesbian body. Back in print, this daring novel constitutes a rhapsodic hymn to women's bodies and women's relationships.

That rare work in fiction . . . the art and the courage are of the highest level.
-The Boston Globe Back in print, this daring novel constitutes a rhapsodic hymn to women's bodies and women's relationships. "That rare work in fiction . . . the art and the courage are of the highest level." —The Boston Globe the lesbian body part 1 1 the lesbian body part 2 60 the lesbian body part 3 108 Blank Page 1