Women on Women 3: A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction by Joan Nestle


Women on Women 3: A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction
Title : Women on Women 3: A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction
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ISBN : 0452276616
ISBN-10 : 9780452276611
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 352
Publication : First published June 1, 1996

The third volume of the Women on Women series features brilliant writing from a generation of women writers, including Kate Millett, Michelle Cliff, and Barbara Smith. From the traditional to the transgressive, this award-winning series presents the best short work by the best writers of the lesbian community.

Women on Women 3: A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction Reviews

  • Killian MacDonald

    ‘Where are you, Troy? Your touch works on me like a respirator... or the sun without boredom or one final glass of beer. Speaking love the same way to the same girl night after day.’

  • Lyla

    Honestly, this book for me has been quite the slog and I think its because I just don't much care for short stories. That and that about half of the stories I managed to slog myself through really weren't worth the good ones that I had enjoyed. I got about halfway through the book in total. Of course, I don't think that the book is bad, far from it. I think its valuable that the collection of lesbian short stories exists. However, I simply cannot get into it, and I think most of the stories are in a collection for a reason in being extremely boring to get through. After two months of barely getting through half of the book I think I just need to let it hang on my shelf and maybe some other time I will pick it up again.

  • Yolie

    Great overall. So many different voices and ideas. Every story was so vivid and real. Some of the most notable stories in this book are: Salisbury Joe, Why I'm here, What We Do In Bed and my favorite, Home. A line from Home: "But I wonder how someone can know me if they can't know my family, if there's no current information to tell. Never to say to a friend, a lover, "I talked to my mother yesterday and she said..." Nothing to tell. Just a blank where all that is supposed to be." The stories range from heartbreak, happiness, longing, love and death. I will be seeking out volumes one and two. A must read that belongs in everyone's collection.

  • Freyja Vanadis

    A few of the stories in this collection were quite good, such as Jenifer Levin's "A Room, In A Stone House, In Spain". Some were okay, and some were unreadable. I think I skipped over a quarter of the stories in this book.

  • HeavyReader

    This is another collection of short stories about lesbian themes, that I found entertaining, but not hot or sexy.