The Naiad Press, Inc.
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1996
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| Einrichtung: | Lesbenarchiv Frankfurt | Frankfurt |
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| Verfasst von: | Stores,Teresa |
| Ausgabe: | 1 |
| Jahr: | 1996 |
| ISBN: | 1562801228 |
| Sprache: | Nicht einzuordnen |
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| In the depths of the Great Depression, two young women begin a dangerous journey to themselves... When Maxine McCarthy loses her factory job, she realizes there are only two certainties in her future: the harsh New York winter and more beatings from her abusive stepfather. When Josephine Lee wins a scholarship to a Nothern College, she rejoices in the chance to finally escape the stifling conventions of the rural South. But, believing that education is wasted on women, her preacher father refuses to let her go. Unwiiling to accept their fates, Maxine and Josephine run away from home disguised as boys and ride the rails as hobos. After a chance meeting in a boxcar, "Joe" and "Max" decide to travel together, each believing the other is a really boy - a boy unlike any of the other boys she's known. As the freight trains meander throught the maze of silver tracks, the wanderers grow closer ... and begin to fall in love. The side track is place change, diversion, a backstage waiting room for the right switch, the right engine, the string of cars with a similar destination. For those stripped of their families, beliefs, and expectations, the whistle of engine, clack of the track, and the echoes in a hollow boxcar sing of paths not yet taken and whisper the promise of change. And for Max and Joe, the true ride to freedom begins when they cross the boundaries they cannot see ... | |
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