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The Big Book Of Lesbian Horse Stories
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
October 1st 2002
by Kensington
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This is a parody of every lesbian pulp-fiction plot ever written. There is no lack of freckled farm girls, gangster molls or saddled-policewomen, and the collection of short stories perfectly captures the flavour of the fifties dime novel.
This collection is not to be taken seriously. Every girl has a name like Oreola or Jean and every story includes a horse, sometimes under the most unlikely circumstances. The plots are emotionally-charged and repetitive, usually involving a protagonist who must...more
This collection is not to be taken seriously. Every girl has a name like Oreola or Jean and every story includes a horse, sometimes under the most unlikely circumstances. The plots are emotionally-charged and repetitive, usually involving a protagonist who must...more
This book must have been *so* much fun for these two women to write! Each story adds a modern twist to one of the stock settings of lesbian pulp fiction, while somehow also managing to work a horse into the story. The last one alone is worth the price of admission; in it, an unhappy farmer's wife who has set out to save a group of wild stallions from the menfolk stumbles onto a commune of refugees from the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. There, she is introduced to all manner of lesbian delight...more
Oh so ridiculous - this book just seems to take it all to new depths - I think I might prefer it to Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary, partially because I've become more familiar with a) lesbian literature and b) trashy pulp in the intervening time, so I know what this book is parodying.
Here are some particularly noteworthy lines:
"'Thank you Jean, and please try to understand - Midge's problem is over-identification with her father, which compelled her to embrace a patriarchal power system'"
"Uncle R...more
Here are some particularly noteworthy lines:
"'Thank you Jean, and please try to understand - Midge's problem is over-identification with her father, which compelled her to embrace a patriarchal power system'"
"Uncle R...more
Alisa Surkis and Monica Nolan, The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories (Kensington, 2003)
Okay, so lesbians and horses, and a cover straight off a fifties dime novel. How can you possibly go wrong? Let me count the ways, you wretched thing.
I can't, and probably don't want to, count the number of said dime novels I've read, nor the time I've wasted on them. Some achieve a kind of unintentional, campy humor, and the blurb on the back promises that this is the angle Surkis and Nolan took with The Big...more
Okay, so lesbians and horses, and a cover straight off a fifties dime novel. How can you possibly go wrong? Let me count the ways, you wretched thing.
I can't, and probably don't want to, count the number of said dime novels I've read, nor the time I've wasted on them. Some achieve a kind of unintentional, campy humor, and the blurb on the back promises that this is the angle Surkis and Nolan took with The Big...more
Sample: A cab pulled up and Tilly leaped out. "Oh Midge," she mourned. "I was afraid of something like this." Turning to Jean, she said, "Thank you Jean, and try to understand. Midge's problem is overidentification with her father, which compelled her to embrace a patriarchal power system, while her own desires placed her squarely in opposition to that very system. She does the best she can."
Oh, the awesome evilness. Very entertaining send up of the "girl and her horse" type of books, complete with some pokes at certain tropes of lesbian romance. I'm still giggling over several of them.
I would read this if it were by Pat Buchanan.
Apr 30, 2007
Grania
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Women in jodphurs, with high boots & whips
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A collection of stories about lesbians who love lesbians who love horses.
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