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Motherlines (Holdfast Chronicles #2)
"Everything I've always wanted from an adventure, and then some!"
Samuel R Delany
"[Motherlines is] a pioneer exercise in women's fantasies of independence, skill, freedom. It has a robust, earthy beauty. She has a genius for grasping ideas and dreams that are in the air and making them concrete and dramatic in her fiction."
Marge Piercy
Alldera had risked her life to escape...more
Samuel R Delany
"[Motherlines is] a pioneer exercise in women's fantasies of independence, skill, freedom. It has a robust, earthy beauty. She has a genius for grasping ideas and dreams that are in the air and making them concrete and dramatic in her fiction."
Marge Piercy
Alldera had risked her life to escape...more
Paperback, 246 pages
Published
March 15th 1981
by Berkley
(first published 1978)
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Second title of the Holdfast Series. The main character breaks free and searches finds her own kind. This is why I like this author so much, when she finds her own kind, she discovers that men aren't all to blame and wonders if there is a possibility of getting along. This is the book that has the famous horse scene that all my fellow reading buddies were so shocked about. So good. Again, this book is one of the reasons I like man-hating Sci Fi. Recommended to Katy P. who claims she likes this k...more
This book really influenced my naive 15 year old mind. For the good? I think so. The most feminist book I had read so far. If the school would have known what was in it, it would have been pulled from the shelves. WARNING: sex scenes.
I read this book as a teenager. It made quite an impression on me. It was one of my favorite books from that time.
The prequel was hard to take. This one is just right.
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Suzy McKee Charnas was born and educated in New York City, attending Barnard College as an Economic History major (1961) and, after a two-year stint in Nigeria with the Peace Corps, New York University (MAT, 1965). She taught at the New Lincoln School in New York until Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital hired her away as a curriculum consultant for their high school drug-abuse treatment program. In 1969...more
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