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Leslie Feinberg

Stone Butch Blues

Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up in the “Ozzie and Harriet” McCarthy era and coming out as a young butch lesbian in the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-collar town. Stone Butch Blues traces a propulsive journey, powerfully evoking history and politics while portraying an extraordinary protagonist full of longing, vulnerability, and working-class grit. This once-underground classic takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of gender transformation and exploration and ultimately speaks to the heart of anyone who has ever suffered or gloried in being different.
450 printed pages
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Impressions

  • idiDalsheshared an impression6 years ago

    one of the most impressive books about LGBT society in 70th in America. novel about hard times and pain, deep love and true friendship, fears, betrayals and again love - all of the things that life consists.

Quotes

  • fhas quoted5 days ago
    Especially in the cool night
    when leafy boughs make patterns on the walls
    and consciousness gently ebbs
    making way for sleep to lap my shores
    in that long moment of no control
    coals of remembering glow softly
    lending the darkness a different hue.
  • fhas quoted5 days ago
    During the long night I realized that if love had been enough, I might never have lost Theresa. But I did. I could say we came to a fork in the road. That was the truth, but it wasn’t the whole truth. I knew I had lost Theresa in little ways long before we parted. I had been at the center of her world; she had become my whole world. As my universe shrank, I needed her to be everything for me, and in return I longed to be everything she needed. Neither of us could live up to the expectations.
  • fhas quoted5 days ago
    As yellow as leaves give way
    to the gentle insistence of the green
    you touched my loneliness
    and my crisp, brown husks
    yielded to a tender newness.

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