![]() ![]() My mother’s parents lived with us in our small house near Orléans. I had been raised in the warm family seclusion that is characteristic of respectable French families. ![]() I was seventeen and unobtrusive, though not really plain. Read moreġWHEN THE WAR BEGAN, I WAS IN MY LAST YEAR OF school at the convent of St. It sold over 2 million copies in the first 5 years. It was also the first pulp fiction that made it big. As the book ends, the optimism they have of post-WWII Europe has begun to wane.Women's Barracks was the first lesbian themed pulp to hit the US. Most of the characters in the book are convinced that the end of World War II with put an end to war altogether. ![]() The book doesn't center completely around this idea of sexual identity, there is also a very strong story of the question of war. ![]() I especially liked the conversation that the narrator has with Ann (the Lesbian) and the differences between women who are lesbians and those who sleep with women occasionally but do not consider themselves lebians. It has some very realistic depictions of all of the main characters, who are all very different. Naturally, I was attracted by the title and the cover, but how was I to know that the story would be good as well? Lesbian pulp is usually one of those things that you skim to the juicy parts and then stop reading because the lesbian usually dies in the end. ![]()
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