The Bar Stories: A Novel After All
Donnelly, Nisa
ISBN 10: 0312037953 / ISBN 13: 9780312037956
Published by St. Martin's Griffin, 1989
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Bar Stories: A Novel After All
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Good
About this title
Synopsis:
On a nondescript street somewhere in San Francisco sits Babe's bar, a legendary place where women who love women come to celebrate, to dry their
tears, to spin dreams, and, every once in a while, to have their dreams come true.
The Bar Stories presents a panoramic view of the lesbian nation, and celebrates lesbian survival in a world more often hostile than tolerant. These stories
are about women whom life hasn't been able to beat and so, grudgingly, respects. "We're respectable," Babe Daniels says, "because we survived...and we
survived because we knew how to kick ass."
From Publishers Weekly:
Subtitled A Novel After All , these polished and smartly paced stories about lesbians in love loosely revolve around Babe Daniels's bar in Oakland, Calif.
Leading off is the tale of how Babe left the Roller Derby, rescued Sharon Winston and her baby Tara from a home for unwed mothers, and got them to
California, where Babe began working in the bar she finally buys. The bar draws women from all over: Kate Solomon, a terminally ill, Pulitzer prize-
winning photojournalist, leaves her lover Crissy to drive a van across the country, searching for the lesbian nation. Fearless Faye Fletcher is a regular--an
old Roller Derby queen and early lover of Babe's, now a drunken has-been, defeated by the death of her young daughter. The members of Babe's softball
team, the Dykeball Losers, have their stories; Sharon, bothered by Babe's promiscuity, wonders what she wants from her relationship. Lesbians of many
stripes--timid, tough, fearful, assertive--people the pages with some fairly explicit sex and a hard-to-believe buoyancy. Donnelly, billed as the lesbian
Damon Runyon, writes as though she were cheerleading. But when she steers clear of sentimentality, cliche and melodrama, her stories are lively,
moving and ring true.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
