| The Medusa Head Contributor(s): Meigs, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 088922210X ISBN-13: 9780889222106 Publisher: Talonbooks OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1983 Annotation: A sensitive psychological portrait of a stormy three-way lesbian relationship. "An unsparing account of love, jealousy and hate". -- Toronto Star |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 83091368 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.56" W x 8.48" (0.38 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Lesbian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For one year in her life, Mary Meigs and her long-term lover and friend, Marie-Claire Blais, lived in a m nage trois with the beautiful and powerful "Andr e." After the end of their stormy three-way relationship, both Marie-Claire and Andr e, who are fiction writers, embodied their memories in novels. The Medusa Head comes from the third woman--the autobiographer, who works hard to uncover the truth about that year. The story begins when Marie-Claire meets Andr e at a literary event in Paris. They fall in love; and when Mary meets Andr e, she falls in love, too. The three of them move to La Salle in Brittany, where Mary and Marie-Claire discover that the beguiling Andr e is emotionally complex. In her happy, contented state, Andr e is irresistible: intelligent, witty, charming. But Andr e is also given to sudden and unexpected mood shifts, the most terrifying of which is her transformation into the "Medusa Head"--a furious, irrational, overpowering figure who must be placated at all costs. Thus, Mary and Marie-Claire are drawn into Andr e's emotional labyrinth, from which they find it increasingly difficult to escape. |
