{"product_id":"in-thrall-isbn-9781635902211","title":"In Thrall","description":"\u003cb\u003eA touchstone novel of lesbian adolescence, set years before gay liberation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Dear Miss Maxfield … what I’m really afraid of is that I am a homosexual human being. I wish you were one too but I don’t think it’s possible there could be so many in one school, do you?—probably there is only one person who is homosexual in one place at one time and that one person (I am afraid) is me …”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1982 and set prior to Stonewall, Jane DeLynn’s \u003ci\u003eIn Thrall\u003c\/i\u003e is a touchstone narrative of lesbian adolescence. \u003ci\u003ePublishing Triangle\u003c\/i\u003e called it one of the “best gay and lesbian novels of all time.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter sixteen-year-old Lynn writes her thirty-seven-year-old English teacher a letter, they embark on one of the funniest—and saddest—love affairs in fiction, shrouded in secrecy and guilt. Years before gay liberation, all Lynn knows about “lezbos” is that they wear their hair in crew cuts, buy suits like her father’s, and sprout mustaches over their upper lips. Trying to pass as “normal,” Lynn continues to neck with her boyfriend and make homophobic jokes with her friends. Feigning innocence with her parents, she checks the mirror for telltale signs of “perversion” each night. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfound, witty, poignant, and highly charged, \u003ci\u003eIn Thrall\u003c\/i\u003e has been compared to \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e and to Edmund White’s \u003ci\u003eA Boy’s Own Story\u003c\/i\u003e. “The single most wonderful quality of this novel,” the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e writes, “is its absolute credibility.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new edition includes a foreword by Irish author Colm Tóibín.\"All Lynn's phobias, aversions, preferences, and hang-ups make her exaggerated but real and terrifically funny. The great triumph of this novel is that DeLynn has captured the way adolescents felt, talked, and behaved during the early 1960s.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"More humor, pain, honesty, and Weltschmerz than a dozen of her peers.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Felice Picano, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Jane DeLynn’s newly republished coming-of-age novel set in the pre-Stonewall ’60s is comedic, haunting, and decidedly untidy.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Andrew Chan, \u003ci\u003e4Columns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"DeLynn’s genius for scenes calls to mind the films of John Waters, or J.D. Salinger’s \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e... \u003ci\u003eIn Thrall\u003c\/i\u003e is a bit horrifying and a bit titillating, and always lovingly real. One thing is for sure: It is not a tragedy.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Jessica Ferri, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The charm of \u003ci\u003eIn Thrall\u003c\/i\u003e is that DeLynn stays within the emotional world of her teenage protagonist and within the possibilities that Lynn could have imagined in the early 1960s.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Regina Marler, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Jane DeLynn’s masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eIn Thrall\u003c\/i\u003e, is a profile in courage and pure, willful sense and sensibility … [a] mixture of dramatic intensity and comic brilliance.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Colm Tóibín\u003c\/b\u003eJane DeLynn is the author of the widely acclaimed novels \u003ci\u003eLeash\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReal Estate\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSome Do\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMademoiselle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTikkun\u003c\/i\u003e, and she lived in Saudi Arabia as a correspondent for \u003ci\u003eMirabella\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e during the Gulf War. Her novel \u003ci\u003eReal Estate\u003c\/i\u003e was named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including \u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize; \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Costa Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Testament of Mary\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eNora Webster\u003c\/i\u003e; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022–2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304520798437,"sku":"NP9781635902211","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781635902211.jpg?v=1767729995","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/in-thrall-isbn-9781635902211","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}