Packer, Vin (Marijane Meaker). Spring Fire.
"A story once told in whispers now frankly, honestly written."
If Torres' 'Women's Barracks' started the lesbian pulp thang, then Spring Fire took it a big step further. The first pulp to have a lesbian as the main character (although she does, of course, recognize the error of her ways and end up with a boy)
SUMMARY:
Susan "Mitch" Mitchell goes off to college. Her widowed father wants her to be in a sorority so she does the pledge thing and ends up in Tri Epsilon (at the very least this book stands as an indictment against sororities – yikes). Her roommate Leda is older and sophisticated (seemingly). Mitch gets raped and ends up in Leda's arms (it always happens that way). They have an affair. Leda actually betrays Mitch and then in an unexpected twist, Leda ends up being the asylum committed lesbian and Mitch realizes that she never actually loved her and the reader is to assume that in spite of her obvious butchness she goes on to be a normal heterosexual.
OPINION:
not sleaze. It's too bad the protagonists always have to get raped. Mitch is extremely naïve, and perhaps that is why she is able to breeze through date rape and her lover betraying her. Packer makes some very funny and on target digs at sororities. Fairly well written. Mitch is a well developed and believable character (except at the end).
QUOTES:
"As Tri Epsilons we must do everything we can for her (Leda). I wonder," she said dramatically, pausing, her brow wrinkled, "I wonder if – if insane people can read mail."
"The blood beat furiously in Mitch's throat and she could feel a mounting strength in her legs and arms. With the arrogance of a master, Mitch's nails dug into Leda's flesh as she began to pull the sweater and the thin blouse from her shoulders.
Leda's gasp was one of pleasure and desire and it moved Mitch to more violence, pinning Lead's wrists behind her back and jerking at her skirt."
INTERESTING 'FACTOID': In SVWL, Foster says that Vin Packer is the "admitted pseudonym of an established male author"!!!
CONTENTS: f-f sex. M-f rape.
c2007 melodie morgan frances
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