Desert of the Heart
- ISBN-10
- 184408678X
- ISBN-13
- 9781844086788
- Category
- Lesbians
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Virago Press
- Author
- Jane Rule
Description
Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English Professor, who goes to Reno to obtain a divorce and put an end to her disastrous 16-year marriage. While staying at a boarding house to establish her six-week residency requirement she meets Ann Childs, a casino worker and fifteen years her junior. Physically, they are remarkably alike and eventually have an affair and begin the struggle to figure out just how a relationship between two women can last. Desert of the Heart examines the conflict between convention and freedom and the ways in which the characters try to resolve the conflict.
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