{"product_id":"the-vintage-book-of-international-lesbian-fiction-lambda-literary-award-9780679759522","title":"The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction: Lambda Literary Award","description":"A groundbreaking volume from Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, \u003cb\u003eThe Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e presents a range of literary voices--from twenty-seven countries spanning six continents--and offers glimpses of lesbian life in unfamilar, often exotic climes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe follow an Irish woman as she travels through time in search of a wronged maiden, and anticipate the harrowing fate of a married Indian woman who pursues pleasure with her female lover under the shadow of her husbands suspicious rage. We meet a teacher in Barcelona who locks herself up in her grandmother's house with her young Columbian student, and witness a Slovenian woman's rendezvous with her long dead lover. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection includes the work of familiar writers, as well as a number never before published in English. From the West Indies to Eastern Europe, the Middle East to Southeast Asia, Latin America to South Africa, the distinctive stories found in these pages evoke the diverse political, cultural, emotional, and sexual landscapes of each writer's life. A groundbreaking volume from the Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, who also wrote the introduction, this collections evokes the universal urgency of persistent desire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNaomi Holoch is co-editor, with Jon Nestle, of the \u003cb\u003eWomen on Women\u003c\/b\u003e series of anthologies of American lesbian short fiction and the author of short stories and a novel, \u003cb\u003eOffseason\u003c\/b\u003e. She teaches French language and literature, lesbian and gay fiction, and fiction writing at SUNY-Purchase. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoan Nestle, author of the award-winning \u003cb\u003eA Restricted Country\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eA Fragile Union\u003c\/b\u003e and editor of \u003cb\u003eThe Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader\u003c\/b\u003e, is also co-founder of the New York-based Lesbian Herstory Archives. Along with Naomi Holoch, she has edited three volumes of \u003cb\u003eWomen on Women\u003c\/b\u003e anthologies. She also had the honor of working with John Preston on \u003cb\u003eSister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Talk about Their Lives Together\u003c\/b\u003e. In 1996 she was awarded the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Lesbian and Gay Literature by the Publishing Triangle. For close to thirty years, she taught writing in the SEEK Program at Queens College, CUNY.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491887681810,"sku":"9780679759522","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0a154bc7-b646-4978-878d-1d97760c636a.jpg?v=1730560503","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-vintage-book-of-international-lesbian-fiction-lambda-literary-award-9780679759522","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}