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Folly

Crossing Press (Jan 1982)

9780895940902

| Paperback

250 pages | 5.6 x 8.1 inch | English

$ 8.95

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Dewey 813/.54

LC Classification PS3552.R2435 .F6 1982

LC Control No. 82017235

Genre

Fiction

Subject

Feminist Fiction
Lesbian Fiction
Working Class Women - Fiction

Plot

Folly is a working-class, lesbian novel about black and white women who go on strike in a North Carolina factory townand two of them fall in love. Tillie Olsen said that this novel "speaks with an authenticity, a force, a caring that deepens and enlarges us." Jewelle Gomez noted that this is a novel about "work and passion," in which "women bond together for strength, for a better life, and for love."