| Phys Descr |
377 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
A modern retelling of Balzac's classic Cousin Bette by one of America's most prolific and significant writers. Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their familied, both found refuge in New York and in their domestic routine. Everything changes when Hortense, a wealthy young actress from Ohio, comes to the city to "make it." |
| Subject |
West Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
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Gay actors -- Fiction
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Actresses -- Fiction
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| OCLC # |
907652966 |
| ISBN # |
9781558619043 |
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1558619046 |
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9781558619104 |
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1558619100 |
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