TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE ... Book Reviews, That Is

We had a brainstorm! We thought We thought it might be fa and a bit novel, to have two reviews on the same book from two very different points of view the homosexual and the heterosexual.

And so we have given Carol Hales' novel, "Wind Woman", the treatment:

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"The Lesbian's problem is not why she likes women, but why she doesn't like men."

This statement, made at the December public discussion meeting of the Daughters of Bilitis by Basil Vaerlen, San Francisco psychotherapist, is born out in Carol Hales' novel, "Wind Woman".

Laurel Dean's story unfolds in a series of flashbacks as told to her psychoanalyst. It is the story of an unhappy home life and of insecurity replaced by the fantasy of a tender and gentle beloved "wind woman".

Carol Hales knows whereof she writes. She depicts several types of women who experience a Lesbian rela ti onship Zalda who wants the intense friendship without any physical manifestati on, 17-year-old and "knowing" Janice of a Bohemian background, the bisexual Vivian, Regan of "the light touch" and no roots, the exhibitionist of the "gay bar". All of the se women play a part in Laurel's search for her ideal. All of the se women most of us have known in our own experience.

And Laurel, through analysis, finally comes to a coept herself. The book ends on the hope that Laurel will find fulfillment in a homosexual relationship.

Miss Hales has a simple and easy style of writing. She has done a good job of characterization. The layman will find a truer picture of Lesbianism, while the Lesbian herself oan find "greater insight" into her own make-up.

Del Martin