Jane Rule
Author
Language
English
Description
Jane Rule's first novel-now a classic of gay and lesbian literature-established her as a foremost writer of the vagaries and yearnings of the female heart Against the backdrop of Reno, Nevada, in the late 1950s, award-winning author Jane Rule chronicles a love affair between two women. When Desert of the Heart opens, Evelyn Hall is on a plane that will take her from her old life in Oakland, California, to Reno, where she plans to divorce her...
Series
Criterion collection volume 902
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the 1950s, a repressed English professor goes to Reno for a quick divorce and while waiting for her papers to finalize, has a passionate affair with a young woman.