"Sisters" by Lynne Cheney

[Astarho]

Anybody ever hear of this book? A western romance novel she wrote that features lesbian love, prositution, rape and seems somwhat pro-feminist (from what I can gather from excerpts, anyway)

Evidently Lynne wrote it 20 some years ago. It's since gone out of print, but a Canadian publisher was goingt o re-issue it, but Lynne fought tooth and nail against it. It's out of print so it's a little hard to find, just look at the prices on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451112040/qid=1097852637/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-9149696-6694544?v=glance&s=books

But fortunately the folks at Livejournal have come to the rescue.

http://www.livejournal.com/~lynnecheney/
http://www.livejournal.com/~lynnecheney/1467.html
"Oh, yes, she and Helen were the most intimate friends," Anna May said. Her words made Sophie remember how attached Helen had been to Miss Travers even at Fort Martin. She had followed th young schoolteacher everywhere, spent every moment she could with her, composed long notes to her. "The two of them were so beautiful together, so pure, so loving," Anna May was going on.

Also look here (with an excerpt):
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art19337.asp

The women who embraced in the wagon were Adam and Eve crossing a dark cathedral stage -- no, Eve and Eve, loving one another as they would not be able to once they ate of the fruit and knew themselves as they truly were. She felt curiously moved, curiously envious of them. She had never to this moment thought Eden a particularly attractive paradise, based as it was on naiveté, but she saw that the women in the cart had a passionate, loving intimacy forever closed to her. How strong it made them. What comfort it gave.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

1. What an incredibly incredibly incredibly shitty writer

I would want that suppressed too, if i wrote it!

[Astarho]

2. True

Although I thought it was funny as hell, then I remembered she was trying to write it seriously.

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. There's some incest in there somwhere too n/t

[redowl]

4. OK- really bad stuff- but why did she not want it re-issued really?

was it becasue it was so poorly written or is it because of the subject matter?

those repukes are so freakin repressed.

make ya wonder what the daughter was exposed to as a child-

ooh- nevermind don't want to go there!

[realFedUp]

5. lots of old threads on this....still amusing.