Bottle rocket hearts : a novel /

Bottle rocket hearts : a novel /

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Author / Creator:Whittall, Zoe.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Toronto : Cormorant Books, 2007.
Description:189 p. ; 20 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Young women -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Fiction.
Lesbians -- Fiction.
Lesbians.
Young women.
Montréal (Québec) -- Fiction.
Québec -- Montréal.
Fiction.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6429285
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ISBN:9781897151068
1897151063
Summary:"Welcome to Montreal in the months before the 1995 referendum. Riot Girl gets bought out and mass marketed as the Spice Girls, and gays are gaining some legitimacy, but the queers are rioting against assimilation, cocktail AIDS drugs are starting to work, and the city walls on either side of the Main are spray-painted with the words YES or NO. It's been five years since the OKA crisis and the sex garage riots; revolution seems possible, when you're 18, like Eve. Eve is pining to get out of her parents' house in Dorval and find a girl who wants to kiss her back. She meets Della -- mysterious, defiantly non-monogamous, an avid separatist and ten years older. Initially taken in by a mutual other-worldly sense of rapture, they hole up in Della apartment, trying to navigate spaces of jealousy. On the night of the 1995 referendum, politics and romance come to a head and Even's naiveté begins to fade. From naive teenager to hot shot rough girl, Even decides her own fate."--pub. desc.
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Welcome to '90s Montreal. It's been five years since the OKA crisis and the sex garage riots; the queers are rioting against assimilation, cocktail AIDS drugs are starting to work, and the city walls on either side of the Main are spray-painted with the words YES or NO. Revolution seems possible to eighteen-year-old Eve, who is pining to get out of her parent's house in Dorval and find a girl who wants to kiss her back. She meets Della: ten years older, mysterious, defiantly non-monogamous, and an avid separatist. Their explosive beginning and volatile relationship paves a path for the personal and political to collide on the night of the referendum.

Physical Description:189 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN:9781897151068
1897151063

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