Young in One Another's Arms

13.97 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm- A tight and unmarked copy with staining on the lower text block-" Intertwined relationships as only Jane Rule can portray them. Jane Rule's 1977 novel The Young in One Another's Arms is set at the end of the Vietnam War in and around a boarding house in the Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver. Ruth, a middle-aged woman accustomed to tragedy in her own life, cares for the young and changing borders of her house as a mother and guide. First published by Doubleday and reprinted by The Naiad Press, The Young in One Another's Arms is about the building of female communities. Combining issues of race, gender, sexuality and politics, this warm, sophisticated novel celebrates the camaraderie and strength of women against a backdrop of war and tragedy. The novel won the Canadian Authors Association Best Novel of the Year Award in 1978. With an introduction by novelist Katherine V. Forrest (Curious Wine and Daughters of a Coral Dawn). "Lesbian identity itself is not so much subsumed into the community as kept whole within it - not singled out as an angle of vision any more or less valid than others." Marilyn Schuster, Feminist Studies Little Sister's Classics is a series of books from Arsenal Pulp Press, reviving lost and out-of-print classics of gay and lesbian literature. The books in the series are produced in conjunction with Little Sister, the Canadian bookstore well-known for its anti-censorship efforts. Jane Vance Rule was a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction. American by birth and Canadian by choice, Rule's pioneering work as a writer and activist reached across borders."