Lea Daley
Auteur de Waiting for Harper Lee
Œuvres de Lea Daley
Sanctuary 1 exemplaire
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- female
- Lieux de résidence
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Courte biographie
- Lea Daley has written fiction and poetry while raising children, claiming a lesbian identity, earning a BFA in painting, teaching preschoolers and college students, surviving the death of her only daughter, and heading a non-profit agency that serves low-income working families. Retired now, she writes full-time. Her debut novel, Waiting for Harper Lee, was a Golden Crown Literary Awards finalist and received a Lavender Certificate from the Alice B Readers Appreciation Committee. Her second book, Future Dyke, won a Goldie Award and was a Lambda finalist.
Lea resides in St. Louis, Missouri. She married her long-time partner in 2014, the morning after the city began issuing licenses.
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- Œuvres
- 3
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 19
- Popularité
- #609,294
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 3
In walks the vibrant Alix Dunnevan, ex-concert pianist, mother of two, married to a local bigwig and controlled all her life by her megalomaniac father and then her ‘chip off the old block’ husband. Lynn and Alix soon become friends and allies within the women’s group. Lynn quickly realizes the dangers of the ‘straight woman trap’ and repeatedly tries to cool their growing friendship – and herself – down. But each time she pulls back something happens to break through her barriers, and she realizes she is falling in love.
As Alix reveals more of herself, and the unhappiness in her marriage, Lynn’s hopes and feelings grow. In a final attempt to step away Lynn admits she has fallen for Alix, who immediately declares her love. But without any real understanding of the consequences will Alex have the strength to leave a controlling husband and risk losing her daughters or leave Lynn broken hearted and foolish for having fallen for a “happily married woman’?
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This is a nice, sweet tale of women in the early’ 80’s, before the ERA, before bra burning had spread to the south – if indeed it ever has. Calling it nice isn’t necessarily a criticism. It is just that, a sweet tale of a typical brokenhearted lesbian moving to escape the betrayal and hurt after a seven-year relationship ends. She meets the most interesting and beautiful woman around, they fall in love despite both trying to resist, and the rest of the novel explores their growing relationship, interacting with Lynn’s lesbian friends, and the stress and strain they individually and jointly suffer from the pressure, threats and taunts of Alix’s husband, father and school friends.
There is nothing shocking, nothing overly dramatic, nothing too sexplicit. The emotions, while seemingly troubled and painful, don’t really engage at a deep and meaningful level. While we are told of Alix’s anguish and her husband’s threats they never seem too harsh or too real.
Perhaps it is the perspective of time, making it hard now to imagine a wealthy white woman in America feeling so threatened by the antics of her husband and father who try to bully her into abandoning her children and wealth, and when that fails try to get her to give up her new lover. But while I liked the characters and thought they were well written and rounded, and while the plot flowed through the ups and downs of a woman coming out, not least to herself, and the changes that entailed, it didn’t really touch me.
Gentle, charming, a pleasant way to spend a few hours.… (plus d'informations)