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| Title | : | Out of Time |
| Author | : | Paula Martinac |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 220 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0931188911 |
It seemed like an accident at first Escaping a downpour, Susan Van Dine steps into an antiques shop on Manhattan s West Side and discovers a scrapbook of women s photographs from the 1920s She doesn t really mean to steal the scrapbook but as one incident leads to the next, Susan finds herself drawn into a web of strange occurrences that are hard to explain, especially It seemed like an accident at first Escaping a downpour, Susan Van Dine steps into an antiques shop on Manhattan s West Side and discovers a scrapbook of women s photographs from the 1920s She doesn t really mean to steal the scrapbook but as one incident leads to the next, Susan finds herself drawn into a web of strange occurrences that are hard to explain, especially to her skeptical girlfriend Catherine Is Susan being haunted by the women in the scrapbook who call themselves The Gang By Harriet Timberlake, the budding actress, or Lucy Weir, Harriet s devoted lover and the author of many novels By Sarah Stern, labor writer and organizer, or the aristocratic Elinor Devere Set in the antiques world of New York, with a memorable case of characters, real and ghostly, Out of Time is a delightful and thoughtful novel about history, love, and the persistence of passion
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Writer Paula Martinac s career has been devoted to exploring and documenting the place that lesbians occupy in society, history, and the family Whether in her fiction, her syndicated column, or in a unique guidebook to gay historical sites, Martinac is always most interested in the ways in which lesbians affect and are affected by the society around them.Born on July 30, 1954, in Pittsburgh, Mart Writer Paula Martinac s career has been devoted to exploring and documenting the place that lesbians occupy in society, history, and the family Whether in her fiction, her syndicated column, or in a unique guidebook to gay historical sites, Martinac is always most interested in the ways in which lesbians affect and are affected by the society around them.Born on July 30, 1954, in Pittsburgh, Martinac received her undergraduate degree from Chatham College in that city and went on to graduate school at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia After earning her M.A in 1979, she took a job as assistant curator at the West Virginia State Museum in Charleston.Sponsor Message.In 1982, she left West Virginia and moved to New Jersey to work as a production editor at the publishing firm Prentice Hall That same year she joined the editorial collective for the New York City feminist newspaper, WomaNews From then on, New York would be Martinac s city and the setting for many of her novels and short stories.Martinac s work at WomaNews was the start of a long and productive involvement in women s publishing In 1985, she went to work as production director at the Feminist Press at City University of New York She worked on production at the Press until 1994 and after that continued to contribute as a freelance writer.In 1988, Martinac joined the editorial board of the feminist literary magazine Conditions, which was published in Brooklyn From 1990 to 1995, she co chaired the board of directors of New York s Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, where she established a lesbian and gay reading and writing series titled In Our Own Write Meanwhile, Martinac began to publish her own work, beginning in 1989 with Voyages Out One Lesbian Short Fiction, an anthology of stories written by Martinac and Carla Tomaso, another lesbian writer That year she also edited another short story anthology, The One You Call Sister New Women s Fiction, in which different writers, lesbian and straight, explore the unique connection between sisters.In 1990, Martinac published her first novel, Out of Time, a fantasy romance that playfully explores the history of lesbian identity Out of Time tells the story of a modern lesbian who is first mesmerized, then bewitched, by a photograph of lesbians from the 1920s that she finds in a scrapbook in an antique shop The book was received well by critics and won the Lambda Literary Award in the category of best lesbian fiction of 1990.Martinac has continued to publish prolifically Her works not only include novels such as Home Movies 1993 , about a family s complex reaction to loss filtered through the memory of a lesbian novelist, and Chicken 1997 , a comic novel about a forty something ghost writer who embarks on affairs with two twenty somethings after she is dumped by her lover but also a variety of other books as well.In k.d lang 1996 , a young adult biography of the lesbian chanteuse, she paints a compelling portrait for young readers of growing up lesbian.In The Lesbian and Gay Book of Love and Marriage Creating the Stories of Our Lives 1998 , Martinac draws from her own experiences in a long term committed relationship with her li 
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It seemed like an accident at first Escaping a downpour, Susan Van Dine steps into an antiques shop on Manhattan s West Side and discovers a scrapbook
220 pagesPaula Martinac
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