In Thrall
$31.77
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2024
Summary
A touchstone novel of lesbian adolescence, set years before gay liberation.
“Dear Miss Maxfield … what I’m really afraid of is that I am a homosexual human being. I wish you were one too but I don’t think it’s possible there could be so many in one school, do you?—probably there is only one person who is homosexual in one place at one time and that one person (I am afraid) is me …”
First published in 1982 and set prior to Stonewall, Jane DeLynn’s …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635902211 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1635902215 |
| Author: | Jane Delynn, Colm Toibin |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 138mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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Critics Review
“All Lynn’s phobias, aversions, preferences, and hang-ups make her exaggerated but real and terrifically funny. The great triumph of this novel is that DeLynn has captured the way adolescents felt, talked, and behaved during the early 1960s.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“More humor, pain, honesty, and Weltschmerz than a dozen of her peers.”
—Felice Picano, Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review
“Jane DeLynn’s newly republished coming-of-age novel set in the pre-Stonewall ’60s is comedic, haunting, and decidedly untidy.”
—Andrew Chan, 4Columns
“DeLynn’s genius for scenes calls to mind the films of John Waters, or J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye… In Thrall is a bit horrifying and a bit titillating, and always lovingly real. One thing is for sure: It is not a tragedy.”
—Jessica Ferri, The Washington Post
“The charm of In Thrall is that DeLynn stays within the emotional world of her teenage protagonist and within the possibilities that Lynn could have imagined in the early 1960s.”
—Regina Marler, The New York Review
Jane Delynn
Jane DeLynn is the author of the widely acclaimed novels Leash, Real Estate, and Some Do. Her work has appeared in Paris Review, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, the New York Times, New York Observer, and Tikkun, and she lived in Saudi Arabia as a correspondent for Mirabella and Rolling Stone during the Gulf War. Her novel Real Estate was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022–2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.
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