- Fiction, Lesbians, Fiction, general, Fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian
On a fictional Sapphic island where women live exclusively among themselves, the narrator-protagonist, in a series of invocations to her lover and descriptions of the island's life, celebrates the contours, contents, and satisfactions of the lesbian body.
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Character-led, contemplative, warm and grave.
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Monique Wittig
- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 165
- Publisher
- Morrow, Beacon Press, Avon Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780807063071
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