![]() ![]() One of the finest thinkers-and writers-the women's movement has produced, Dykewomon has worked for the last fifteen years as an editor and teacher of composition and creative writing, both independently and for San Francisco State University. Through Carol's life, Dykewomon explores the changing times and values in America.Įlana Dykewomon is an activist, author, and teacher, and she has a fiercely dedicated readership that has been eagerly awaiting her next novel for a dozen years. Downwardly mobile, the Berkeley grad makes her living by tutoring high school students. Carol is an idealistic, Berkeley-educated, Jewish lesbian living in Oakland, California. Risk is a beautifully told story that spans the years from the mid-eighties to the post-9/11 world. Risk is the longed-for follow-up from Dykewomon. It is firmly established as a classic text in the canon of lesbian literature. ![]() Their story crosses with that of Chava Meyer, a girl who was attended by Gutke at her birth and was later orphaned during the Kishinev pogrom of. Recommended for all collections."- Library JournalĮlana Dykewomon's extraordinarily well-received novel Beyond the Pale was first published in 1997 and won both the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award. Born in a Russian-Jewish settlement, Gutke Gurvich is a midwife who immigrates to New York’s Lower East Side with her partner, a woman passing as a man. "Truly great novels aren't written very often, but Beyond the Pale deserves all the glowing adjectives available."- Bay Area Reporter Compelling, honest and unselfconscious."- The Toronto Star ![]() A work of remarkable importance."- The Village Voice "One of the most compelling novels I have ever read. Praise for Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon: ![]()
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