Tales from the Levee edition by Martha Miller Literature Fiction eBooks
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“Different is a brave thing to be,” a mother tells her five-year-old daughter. During the 1960s and 1970s, when things for gays and lesbians were starting to change in larger cities, in the Midwest, different was not a safe thing to be. A memorable cast of characters, a sympathetic, believable, tight-knit community of friends and rivals fill out the interconnected stories with butches, femmes, go-go dancers, and drag queens who try to find their way in an unaccepting culture by becoming a family of choice. Anyone who has ever been on the outside looking in will feel at home on “the levee.”
Tales from the Levee edition by Martha Miller Literature Fiction eBooks
Certainly a must have if you are interested in fiction that deals with what it was like in the late sixties and early seventies out on the fringe of things. Though not gay myself I certainly had many contacts in the gay community in those days and these stories evoke that time extremely well. What I like about Miller's fiction is the sympathy she has for all of us on this planet. Even those people who you could just hate she has a sense of the pain they too are going through. These stories are organized in a chronological order, one a year, from the middle of the sixties to the middle of the seventies. They are set in the middle of the middle west, as Dave Etter put it, Springfield, Illinois. A town I am all too familiar with, though I don't live there these days. The stories are pretty much about finding out how to be gay at that time. Not an easy task. Beyond that though they get into the seminal problems of love, relationships, our place in the culture. But they take on these issues with lots of humor and caring. There is some serious stuff going on, no doubt. And there is a murder story near the end that is heartbreaking. But what brings me back, over and over again to these stories are the characters, their flaws and their humor. Particularly good for me is the semi-comic, semi-tragic story of "Lady Verushka's Lover." Now that is fiction, doing what it should. Most people that pick this book up will be lesbians, or gay men, but I'm here to tell the straight world that you will be enlightened and entertained by these tales. They will establish the commanlities far more than the differences. Good, very good, stuff indeed.Product details
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Tales from the Levee edition by Martha Miller Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Certainly a must have if you are interested in fiction that deals with what it was like in the late sixties and early seventies out on the fringe of things. Though not gay myself I certainly had many contacts in the gay community in those days and these stories evoke that time extremely well. What I like about Miller's fiction is the sympathy she has for all of us on this planet. Even those people who you could just hate she has a sense of the pain they too are going through. These stories are organized in a chronological order, one a year, from the middle of the sixties to the middle of the seventies. They are set in the middle of the middle west, as Dave Etter put it, Springfield, Illinois. A town I am all too familiar with, though I don't live there these days. The stories are pretty much about finding out how to be gay at that time. Not an easy task. Beyond that though they get into the seminal problems of love, relationships, our place in the culture. But they take on these issues with lots of humor and caring. There is some serious stuff going on, no doubt. And there is a murder story near the end that is heartbreaking. But what brings me back, over and over again to these stories are the characters, their flaws and their humor. Particularly good for me is the semi-comic, semi-tragic story of "Lady Verushka's Lover." Now that is fiction, doing what it should. Most people that pick this book up will be lesbians, or gay men, but I'm here to tell the straight world that you will be enlightened and entertained by these tales. They will establish the commanlities far more than the differences. Good, very good, stuff indeed.
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