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Contract with the world

Contract with the world

by Jane Rule

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About this book

Told as a series of interconnected stories, Jane Rule's fifth novel takes us to a place where feminism, creativity, and sexual politics collide. Contract with the World follows a group of friends, artists, and lovers as they negotiate the shifting terrain of the 1970s, a time when gay and lesbian politics were just emerging. Divided into six parts, the novel enters a world marked by desire, ambition, jealousy, and love. We follow these sexually adventurous thirty-something friends as they marry, divorce, take lovers, lose love, and never stop searching for personal and artistic fulfillment. Whether gay, straight, or bisexual, Rule's characters are as much a product of the era that defines them as of the wise and foolhardy choices they make in their own turbulent lives - choices that will have inevitable, sometimes tragic consequences.

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Art dealersArtistsCanadian fictionFictionGaysWomen authors

Setting

Vancouver (B.C.)

About the author

Jane Rule

28 Mar 1931 – 27 Nov 2007

Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction

Author

Jane Rule

Pages

339

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

11

Language

English

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

ISBN

9781480429574

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