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Title:
Patience & Sarah
Alternate title:
Patience and Sarah
Added Title:
A place for us.
Summary:
Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, a painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another. First self-published in 1969 (titled A Place for Us) in an edition of 1,000 copies, the author hand-sold the book on New York street corners; it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association's first Gay Book Award in 1971. McGraw-Hill's version of the book a year later brought it to mainstream bookstores across the country. Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the 1960s and early 1970s. It celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today.
General Note:
First published under title: A place for us. New York : Bleecker Street Press, 1969.
Edition:
1st Arsenal Pulp Press ed.
Physical Description:
240 p. : ill., facsims. ; 21 cm.
Publisher:
Arsenal Pulp Press,
Publication Date:
2005

1969
ISBN:
9781551521916
Publication Information:
Vancouver, BC, Canada : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005.
Call Number:
MILLER
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