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Booklist and Notes

Booklist and Notes George Brosi Appalachian Heritage, Volume 23, Number 3, Summer 1995, pp. 71-78 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1995.0077 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436634/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:06 GMT from JHU Libraries BOOKLIST AND NOTES___________ George Brosi Alther, Lisa. Five Minutes of Heaven. New York: Dutton, 1995. 320 pages. Hardback in dust jacket. $22.95. Lisa Alther grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee in the 1940s and 1950s. Her first novel, Kinflicks (1976) set in "Hullsport," a barely disguised Kingsport, achieved popular and critical acclaim. Alther' s lat- est novel has been generally viewed as a story of sexual identity. The protagonist, Jude, grows up in Tennessee in the 1950s and then moves to the Northeast where she is finally able to accept herself as a lesbian after the deaths of her most cherished lovers. The Publishers Weekly reviewer calls it a "work of admirable ambition but only tepid interest," but Blanche McCrary Boyd says, "The promise of Lisa Alther's first novel, Kinflicks, is fulfilled in her fifth, Five Minutes of Heaven, which explores the complexities of lesbianism with an extraordinary sexual and emotional maturity. At the end, I felt like shouting http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Booklist and Notes

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Appalachian Review , Volume 23 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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George Brosi Appalachian Heritage, Volume 23, Number 3, Summer 1995, pp. 71-78 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1995.0077 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436634/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:06 GMT from JHU Libraries BOOKLIST AND NOTES___________ George Brosi Alther, Lisa. Five Minutes of Heaven. New York: Dutton, 1995. 320 pages. Hardback in dust jacket. $22.95. Lisa Alther grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee in the 1940s and 1950s. Her first novel, Kinflicks (1976) set in "Hullsport," a barely disguised Kingsport, achieved popular and critical acclaim. Alther' s lat- est novel has been generally viewed as a story of sexual identity. The protagonist, Jude, grows up in Tennessee in the 1950s and then moves to the Northeast where she is finally able to accept herself as a lesbian after the deaths of her most cherished lovers. The Publishers Weekly reviewer calls it a "work of admirable ambition but only tepid interest," but Blanche McCrary Boyd says, "The promise of Lisa Alther's first novel, Kinflicks, is fulfilled in her fifth, Five Minutes of Heaven, which explores the complexities of lesbianism with an extraordinary sexual and emotional maturity. At the end, I felt like shouting

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