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'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.'In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo.A fourteen-year-old girl plans to become 'a virago', until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover. A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father's mistress. A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. 'Alice', she tells herself, 'be a man.'Barnes makes gender and desire seem slippery and joyful - and makes the fictional Lydia Steptoe seem like a writer for our time.
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Barnes, Djuna
- ISBN13 9780571352470
- ISBN10 0571352472
- Pages 48
- Published 2019
- Language English
The Lydia Steptoe Stories
- Author Djuna Barnes
- Publisher FABER & FABER
- ISBN 9780571352470
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