- Fiction, Race relations, Prostitutes, Transvestites
Only Rita Mae Brown, author of Rubyfruit Jungle, could have written a novel as passionately delightful as Southern Discomfort. Here is a witty, warm and pentrating tale of two decades in Montgomery Alabama--a world where all is not what it seems.
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About the book
- Author
- Rita Mae Brown
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 277
- Publisher
- Corgi, Rowohlt Tb., Severn
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- heb, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780060149284
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