- Death, Family, Mothers, Weddings
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Dorothy Baker
- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 226
- Publisher
- New American Library, Contemporary fiction, Houghton Mifflin Company
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781299573338
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“I TOLD them I could be free by the twenty-first, and that I'd come home the twenty-second.”
Dorothy Baker was an American novelist who wrote the lesbian pulp novel Trio (1943), along with widely-successful romance novels. She married poet Howard Baker and together they composed fiction and plays.
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