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A Letter to Harvey Milk [electronic resource]

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"This collection of stories offers a perspective on current issues of homosexuality and anti-Semitism and lends a voice to those experiencing growing pains and self-discovery. Newman's readers accompany her quirky Jewish characters through all kinds of experiences, from an initial lesbian sexual encounter to being sequestered in a college apartment after paranoid Holocaust flashbacks. In these stories, characters anxiously discover their lesbian identities while beginning to understand, and finally to embrace, their Jewish heritage."--Jacket.

Title A Letter to Harvey Milk [electronic resource] : Short Stories / by Leslea Newman. [Library of American fiction ]
Publisher Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press
Creation Date 2004
Notes Includes a new preface to this reprint ed.
English
Content The gift -- A letter to Harvey Milk -- Only a phase -- One Shabbos evening -- Sunday afternoon -- The best revenge -- Flashback -- Something shiny -- The world to come.
Series Library of American Fiction
Extent 1 online resource (173 p. )
Language English
Copyright Date ©2004
National Library system number 997010708758305171
MARC RECORDS
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