Glimmering Girls: A Novel of the Fifties is set in a Florida university during those repressive years when women were near-prisoners in college dorms, when their virtue was constantly guarded, and in particular in that year (1959) when all gay teachers were purged from the university in an overnight sting instigated by the Johns Committee (appointed by the state senate to investigate homosexuals, particularly in the educational community). Francie, the young Jewish heroine who dreams of freedom (both of mind and body), ...
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Glimmering Girls: A Novel of the Fifties is set in a Florida university during those repressive years when women were near-prisoners in college dorms, when their virtue was constantly guarded, and in particular in that year (1959) when all gay teachers were purged from the university in an overnight sting instigated by the Johns Committee (appointed by the state senate to investigate homosexuals, particularly in the educational community). Francie, the young Jewish heroine who dreams of freedom (both of mind and body), meets two female students who invite her to move with them off campus (unheard of in those times) to share a house with a pair of enigmatic, mysterious, attractive twin men and a third man who is the lover of one of the young women. Francie's evolution is described in the ensuing chapters, her awakening to the sexual realities of the times, her discovery of her own talents and abilities (her induction into Phi Beta Kappa), her complicated romance with a young musician, and her involvement with the twin men with whom she shares a house. Her being Jewish and New York-born separates her from the southern, agrarian culture of the university, and allows her a longer view of her own goals and hopes for her future.
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As New in As New dust jacket. 029921060X. Hardcover with dustjacket. First edition. SIGNED by author on title page. Green cloth boards, near pristine. Protected dustjacket is clean and sharp. Book is firm in binding, unread, crisp interior. A lovely copy. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 249 pages; Signed by Author.
