Pulp Friction

Title/Author:	Mary Hallam by Susan Ertz
Plot Summary:	"Portrait of a Woman Sliding Downhill... Mary Hallam had all that she needed - except affection. She tried to find herself in a career of music, and it might have worked if it hadn't been for the accident and the smashed fingers. Then she thought a man was the answer, but her flirtatious stepmother stole the man for a lover. After that it seemed as though no man-woman relationship could be straight and vital. The fault must be hers, she thought, and she began to lose herself, like so many women who drift, restless and hungry..."
Attention-Getting Line on Front Cover:	"You Need a Good Psychoanalyst," they said, "Or a Lover...If You Can Find One."
Classic Line:	"I don't like people," she said. They stare at me, they're wicked. I'm wicked, too, but I don't stare. I know it's rude."

Title/Author:	The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Plot Summary:	"It is the story of Stephen Gordon, a sensitive girl whose parents ardently desired a son in her place. How Stephen developed a natural tendency toward masculinity, her tortured adolescence, and her love that the world -- even her mother -- condemned, is the theme of this extraordinary book."
Attention-Getting Line on Front Cover:	Denounced, banned, and applauded -- the strange love story of a girl who stood midway between the sexes.
Classic Line:	"One night Anne looked across at her daughter: 'Are you tired, my dear? You seem a bit fagged.'"

Title/Author:	Strange Fulfillment by Denys Val Baker
Plot Summary:	"A woman driven by the shadow of a whip..." "A man whose desires defied all convention..." "A girl haunted by dreams she dared not admit..." "Their desparate yearnings drove them down dark and twisted paths in search of satisfaction. Here is the beautifully written, uncompromising account of what each one experiences in the search for a STRANGE FULFILLMENT."
Attention-Getting Line on Front Cover:	"Men and Women in a Jungle of Emotion"
Classic Line:	"It was as if Amanda was made up of two persons, the one heartily afraid of the whip because she did not understand, and the other subtly drawn towards the whip because she did understand."

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