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category: Fiction
published: Oct 2005
ISBN:9781551521916
publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Patience & Sarah

by Isabel Miller, introduction by Emma Donoghue

tagged: lesbian
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Winner of the 1969 American Library Assoc.'s first Gay Book Award

One of the "Best 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of All Time" (Publishing Triangle)

Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another.

First self-published in 1969 in an edition of 1,000 copies, it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association's first Gay Book Award. Patience & Sarah is a historical romance that was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the late 1960s and early 1970s; it celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today.

This edition features an appendix of supplementary materials, as well as an introduction by Emma Donoghue, whose numerous books include Stirfry, Hood, and Life Mask, which was shortlisted for a 2005 Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award. Her 2010 novel Room was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize.


Little Sister's Classic edition now in its second printing!

About the Authors
Isabel Miller

Isabel Miller was the author of numerous novels, including two under her real name, Alma Routsong. She died in 1996.


Isabel Miller was the author of numerous novels, including two under her real name, Alma Routsong. She died in 1996.

Awards
  • Winner, American Library Assoc.'s first Gay Book Award
Editorial Reviews

The writing has the directness and whimsicality of primitive paintings?it is like spiked gingerbread or surprising samplers. The tone is sweetly bold. And the tale evokes many kinds of frontier at once.
?The Village Voice

— The Village Voice

Starred review:The story of a painter and a farmer in 19th-century New England. One of the first lesbian novels with a happy ending and, in 1971, the first recipient of ALA's Stonewall Book Award.
?Library Journal (May 2007)

— Library Journal

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