Love, Zena Beth

by Diane Salvatore

For young Joyce Ecco, walking into a particular New York hotel room overlooking Central Park is pure wish-fulfillment. She has been granted an interview with Zena Beth Frazer, the most famous - and notorious - lesbian writer in America. Notorious not just for the legendary pioneering vision of her work but for her sexy attractiveness, her outrageous wit, her in-your-face aplomb with the nation's media. Not to mention her sensational affair with a world-famous woman sports star. The interview leads to another encounter with Zena Beth - this one the fulfillment of Joyce's every erotic fantasy. Soon she is invited to the lesbian writer's home in the South. But if she joins Zena Beth, the price will be her relationship with lover Elaine, and a promising career as a journalist in the dynamic world of New York publishing. Will she pay the price? Would you?You will fully share Joyce's fascination with Zena Beth Frazer. For the portrait of Zena Beth holds back nothing. Dazzling in its erotic dimension, substantial and detailed in all of its ramifications, this superb novel will bring you to a new perception of what it is like to be with a woman enthroned at the very height of fame.

Genres: Fiction, Lesbian Fiction, LGBT, Lesbian, Queer

209 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Diane Salvatore is the author of four novels, Benediction, which was a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; Love, Zena Beth; Paxton Court; One of Our Own; and a story collection, Not Telling Mother. During her nearly 30 years as a senior-level editor and editor in chief at several of America's national women's magazines, she served on the board of the American Society of Magazine Editors and appeared frequently on the Today Show and Good Morning America. Today she is publisher of Broadway Books. Diane and her partner live in New Jersey.

Reviews

[Mary Laidlaw · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this book!

[trishsitt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Best to read during the summer while laying outside. Made me want to move to the countryside justtttt a little bit. Made me want to find a toxic woman to do me wrong 😔

[Richard Jespers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good "Lesbian" fiction (Lambda nominee c1992).