The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes
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Overview: ‘I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.’
In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening – accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo.
A fourteen-year-old girl plans to become ‘a virago’, until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover.
A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father’s mistress.
A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. ‘Alice’, she tells herself, ‘be a man.’
Barnes makes gender and desire seem slippery and joyful – and makes the fictional Lydia Steptoe seem like a writer for our time.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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