Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller SIGNED! [1985 PAPERBACK] • Fawcett Crest

Name: Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller SIGNED! [1985 PAPERBACK] • Fawcett Crest
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Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller (originally self-published in 1969 as " A Place For Us")

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1985] FAWCETT CREST

Scarcer third Fawcett Crest printing (1985) w/ 80's style cover.

Title page has been flat-signed by late author Isabel Miller aka Alma Routsong.

Vintage mass market paperback in very good condition.

Cover looks new with some minor edge / corner wear.

Spine has a single read crease.

Pages look and read as new with a hint of inevitable tanning to pages.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic award-winning lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, a 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 (titled A Place for Us) in an edition of 1,000 copies, the author hand-sold the book on New York street corners; it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association's first Gay Book Award in 1971. McGraw-Hill's version of the book a year later brought it to mainstream bookstores across the country.

Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the 1960s and early 1970s. It celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today.

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