| Polite Sex Contributor(s): Wilcox, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316941344 ISBN-13: 9780316941341 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1999 Annotation: When Emily and Clara, two young women from Tula Springs, Louisiana, arrive in New York City, they carry with them all the youthful expectancy of a bright future filled with passion and accomplishment. As the years pass and Emily and Clara follow different paths, each discovers in her own way that growing older involves concessions -- and that concessions in love can be the costliest of all. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.52" W x 8.54" (0.84 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - New York, N.Y. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With the recent publication of Plain and Normal, James Wilcox's first book in five years ... with Back Bay's fall 1998 release of a new trade paperback edition of Wilcox's comic masterpiece, Modern Baptists (which Anne Tyler hailed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, which Toni Morrison counts as one of her favorite books by unsung writers, which Harold Bloom has elected to the canon of enduring twentieth-century American literature) ... and now with this new trade paperback edition of Wilcox's highly acclaimed Polite Sex, the story of two young women from Tula Springs, Louisiana, who seek fame and fortune in New York City ...readers everywhere are discovering the special pleasures of Wilcox's tender and hilarious comic fiction. |