Virginia Woolf: Orlando

UK 2020, 225 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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Penguin UK
A Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend, the charismatic writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a playful mock »biography« of a chameleonic historical figure, immortal and ageless, who changes sex and identity on a whim. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia ... Weiterlesen

Linda Kay Silva: Across Time

USA 2008, 264 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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Spinsters Ink - Across Time 1
Jessie Ferguson's life is going nowhere. She's tried drugs, alcohol, and even sex, to fill the emptiness and void that has no name. But nothing seems to quench the dull ache that visits her each night. Then when Jessie moves into the restored Victorian Bed and Breakfast, all of that changes the instant she hears a call from her past. ... Weiterlesen

Mary Gentle: Ilario, Book Two: The Stone Golem

USA 2006, 361 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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The action sweeps Ilario, a young hermaphrodite would-be painter, from giving Caesarian birth to a daughter in Venice to befriending Pharaoh-Queen Ty-ameny in Alexandria-in-exile at Constantinople where he meets the Alexandrine castrato-by-choice spy Rekhmire and Ramiro Carrasco, Ilario's would-be assassin and later slave. A turn of fate sees a Chinese war junk taking Ilario first home to Iberia to negotiate ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Confessions of Max Tivoli

UK/USA 2004, 271 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Faber and Faber
Set in San Francisco a hundred years ago, it is the story of a man who suffers from a rare medical condition and, in a sense, lives life backwards. Max Tivoli is writing the story of his life. He is nearly seventy years old, but he looks as if he is only seven - for Max is ageing backwards. The ... Weiterlesen

Marge Piercy: Woman on the Edge of Time

USA 1976, 376 pp., Pb, € 19.95
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Ballantine
Marge Piercy delves into the mind of 37-year-old Consuelo (Connie) Ramos, a woman who exists on the fringes of life in contemporary New York City. Early in the novel Connie beats up her niece's pimp and is committed - again - to the psychiatric ward in Bellevue Hospital. The novel shifts between the horrible conditions in psychiatric wards and the ... Weiterlesen