Bird-Eyes: A Novel

Madelyn Arnold

thg 7 2000 · Được bán bởi Macmillan

Giới thiệu về sách điện tử này

Winner of the first Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction, Madelyn Arnold's Bird-Eyes is a powerful, searing novel of resistance and survival in a hostile world.

In 1963, being different can be illegal---as sixteen-year-old Latisha, a lesbian runaway, discovers when she is sentenced to treatment in the locked ward of a mental hospital for being "incorrigible" and a threat to society. Her best friend in the ward is Anna, an older deaf woman committed for depression. Although she's forbidden to communicate in sign language, Anna teaches Latisha and gives her a name: "Bird-Eyes." Their growing friendship and their alliance against the hospital oppression forms a bond that is the catalyst for Latisha's eventual act of defiance.

A brilliant novel of friendship and defiance, of passion and resistance.

Giới thiệu tác giả

Madelyn Arnold won the 1988 Lambda Literary Award for Best First Novel for Bird-Eyes. Her other books include the novel A Year of Full Moons and short story collection On Ships at Sea. She lives in Seattle.