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M. E. Kerr (1927–2022)

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73+ opere 3,815 membri 77 recensioni 1 preferito

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Marijane Meaker (born May 27, 1927) is an American novelist and short story writer in several genres using different pen names. Using her own observations of lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s, she wrote a series of nonfiction books as Ann Aldrich from 1955 to 1972. In 1972 she switched genres and pen mostra altro names once more to begin writing for young adults, and became quite successful as M.E. Kerr, producing over 20 novels and winning multiple awards including the American Library Association's lifetime award for young-adult literature, the ALA Margaret Edwards Award. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Marijane Meaker

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Opere di M. E. Kerr

Shoebag (1992) 417 copie
Liberaci da Evie (1994) 363 copie
Gentlehands (1978) 285 copie
Dinky Hocker è sola (1972) 258 copie
Night Kites (1986) 154 copie
Spring Fire (1952) 112 copie
Slap Your Sides (2001) 101 copie
Your Eyes in Stars (2006) 100 copie
Shockproof Sydney Skate (1972) 89 copie
"Hello," I Lied (1997) 89 copie
Fell (1731) 87 copie
Someone Like Summer (1999) 86 copie
Le ragazze di Miss Blue (1975) 80 copie
We Walk Alone (1955) 77 copie
The Books of Fell (2001) 77 copie
Little Little (1981) 76 copie
The Shuteyes (1993) 70 copie
The Son of Someone Famous (1974) 63 copie
We, Too, Must Love (1958) 63 copie
Fell Back (1989) 52 copie
What Became of Her (2000) 49 copie
Fell Down (1991) 38 copie
Shoebag Read 180 Stage A (1990) 34 copie
The Evil Friendship (1958) 31 copie
Love Is a Missing Person (1975) 30 copie
Linger (1993) 29 copie
The Twisted Ones (1959) 27 copie
Him She Loves? (1984) 23 copie
5:45 to Suburbia (1958) 18 copie
Take a Lesbian to Lunch (1972) 16 copie
Frankenlouse (1994) 16 copie
Shoebag Returns (1996) 15 copie
Scott Free: A Crime Novel (2007) 15 copie
Something in the Shadows (1961) 14 copie
We Two Won't Last (1963) 13 copie
Edge: Collected Stories (2015) 13 copie
The Thrill Kids (2010) 11 copie
3 Day Terror (2011) 11 copie
The Young and Violent (1956) 9 copie
Come Destroy Me (1954) 9 copie
Alone at Night (1963) 8 copie
Don't Rely on Gemini (2011) 8 copie
Aquiloni nella notte (1996) 7 copie
Whisper His Sin (1954) 6 copie
Intimate Victims (1963) 6 copie
The Hare in March (1966) 6 copie
Dark Don't Catch Me (1965) 5 copie
Dark Intruder (1956) 5 copie
Look Back to Love (1953) 4 copie
Game of survival (1968) 3 copie
Hometown (1967) 3 copie
Rettet die Zärtlichkeit (1987) 2 copie
on the edge 1 copia
Great Expectations [short story] — Autore — 1 copia
Far From Home 1 copia
¡Le gusta este chico! (1989) 1 copia

Opere correlate

Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence (1994) — Collaboratore — 803 copie
Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology (1993) — Collaboratore — 285 copie
Half-Minute Horrors (2009) — Collaboratore — 278 copie
Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps (2003) — Collaboratore — 203 copie
Shattered: Stories of Children and War (2002) — Collaboratore — 146 copie
Stay True: Short Stories for Strong Girls (1998) — Collaboratore — 110 copie
A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir (2007) — Collaboratore — 78 copie
Visions: 19 Short Stories (1987) — Collaboratore — 72 copie
Face Relations: 11 Stories about Seeing beyond Color (2004) — Collaboratore — 51 copie
Some Things Strange and Sinister (1972) — Collaboratore — 50 copie
I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion (2000) — Collaboratore — 47 copie
Connections (1989) — Collaboratore — 44 copie
Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets (1998) — Collaboratore — 38 copie
Funny You Should Ask (1992) — Collaboratore — 18 copie

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Descent into Madness
Review of the Kindle eBook edition (2022) of the Gold Medal Book paperback original (1952)

Spring Fire was Marijane Meaker's (writing under the pseudonym Vin Packer) pulp paperback about a lesbian romance between sorority sisters in 1952. The repressive atmosphere of that era had Meaker's publishers require that the romance should fail and be a cause of regret afterwards.

That is in contrast to the ending of Patricia Highsmith's lesbian romance (writing as Claire Morgan) The Price of Salt, also published in 1952, which was more optimistic. Meaker's book is more explicit about the physical romance however, with Highsmith being more restrained.

See cover at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/Spring_Fire_Cover_First_Edition.j...
The cover of the Gold Medal Books paperback original (1952). Image sourced from Wikipedia.

Although my 2022 Kindle edition shares the cover design of the 2004 Cleis paperback & ebook Spring Fire, it does not include Marijane Meaker's then newly written introduction in which she apparently wrote that she was embarrassed about having the book republished, although it still stands as a breakthrough work for lesbian literature.

I read Spring Fire as an addendum to my recent Patricia Highsmith binge. Meaker and Highsmith were also involved in a earlier relationship about which Meaker later wrote a memoir Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950's (2003).

Trivia and Links
You can read Marijane Meaker's (1927-2022) obituary in The New York Times here.

You can read further about the background to the original publication of Spring Fire at Literary Ladies Guide by Francis Booth, March 21, 2021.

Marijane Meaker was interviewed for the Patricia Highsmith documentary film Loving Highsmith (2022) directed by Eva Vitija. You can see several excerpts of Meaker's interview in the trailer for the film here (she first says: "Pat was more dedicated than any writer I had ever met. Certainly she was very famous when I met her.").
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alanteder | 4 altre recensioni | Oct 28, 2023 |
Oh, boy. The thing I find truly useful about this book is its exploration of the heavy themes of the Holocaust without being a "Holocaust book." Written at a time (1978) when one's grandfather could have been a Nazi strongman in a concentration camp, the story doesn't center on the terrible things Buddy's grandfather might have done -- instead, the focus is on Buddy, trying to find his way as a blue-collared "townie" in love with a super-rich girl outside of Montauk, New York.

Without spoiling, I'll ask -- Can humans change? Is redemption possible? Are there crimes so godawfully heinous that they cannot be forgiven?

This book shows its age only because tape decks, polyester, and Barbra Streisand are no longer de rigeur -- otherwise, the eternal themes of love, loss, and betrayal are poignantly rendered in this early offering from a master of teen literature.
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FinallyJones | 3 altre recensioni | Nov 17, 2021 |
 
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lcslibrarian | 2 altre recensioni | Aug 13, 2020 |
Libro molto bello che ho centellinato e assaporato in questi mesi.
La scrittrice Marijane Meaker racconta i due anni di relazione con Patricia Highsmith alla fine degli anni '50. Interessante lo sguardo sull'ambiente editoriale e intellettuale della New York di quegli anni, su quello gay e lesbico, e su alcune ossessioni e passioni della Highsmith (il bere, l'antisemitismo, e anche un certo razzismo verso le persone di colore). Alla fine del libro c'è la descrizione del loro ultimo incontro dopo molti anni in cui non si erano più viste.
Ho "ritagliato" qualche pagina dal libro qui: https://patriziamandanici.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/highsmith-una-storia-damore-d...
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Patfumetto | 2 altre recensioni | Mar 19, 2020 |

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