by Jane Rule
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appears in Lesbian, LGBTQ, and Fiction.
This Is Not For You, perhaps Jane Rule's most selfconsciously literary and philosophical novel, tells the story of a young woman in the late 1950s and early 1960s as she negotiates her lesbian sexuality. The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Jane Rule's second novel more than thirty years after its original appearance in 1970, and more than fi...
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appears in Lesbian, LGBTQ, and Fiction.
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Consider Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. Recommended by 3 sources.
“Sharp, intimate prose and a confined Paris setting produce a small, intense novel that tracks a young man's struggle between desire and social expectation. Its useful part is the sustained, inward pressure: long passages of reflection that make moral hesitation feel palpable and the prose often luminous. The main limitation is narrow scope—the plot is compact and frequently inward, so secondary figures stay sketchy and the mood can feel claustrophobic; readers seeking momentum or wider context may find it slow.”
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