Sarah Schulman, Author . Carroll & Graf $24.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-78671-866-5
The age of consent provides the flash point for Schulman's disturbing eighth novel (after 1998's Shimmer
). The online activities of Stew Mulcahey—15, gay and troubled—lead him straight into the arms of David Ziemska, 39, and his
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Sarah Schulman, Author . Arsenal Pulp $22.95 (183p) ISBN 978-1-55152-257-9
The author of several New York novels (People in Trouble
; etc.), Schulman makes an unfortunate shift with this madcap satire set “in the future, when things are slightly better because there has been a big change.” New York has been...
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Sarah Schulman, Author Dutton Books $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-24641-1
Schulman populates her hilarious, hard-core gay mystery with raunchy characters who stalk the streets of the East Village. When the lesbian narrator's girlfriend Delores defects to the bed and Tribeca loft of photographer Mary Sunshine, the unnamed...
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Sarah Schulman, Author Seal Press (CA) $9.95 (178p) ISBN 978-0-931188-38-1
Lila Futuransky is a lesbian living on the East Side of New York who admires Jack Kerouac and is determined to emulate her hero. She wanders around the city, takes many lovers, but then she meets Emily. They fall for each other, and soon Lila must...
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Sarah Schulman, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-525-24835-4
In a witty, angry and anguished novel, set in an almost-real contemporary New York City, Kate and Molly are having an affair. Kate, an artist, still loves husband Peter and wants the two parts of her love life to somehow peacefully coexist. They won'
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Sarah Schulman, Author Plume Books $11.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-452-26568-4
Kate, involved in a love triangle with her husband and her lesbian lover, works as an artist and AIDS activist in New York City. ``At times lapsing into melodrama, Schulman carefully balances the story lines, using Kate's own sexual awareness and...
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Sarah Schulman, Author Dutton Books $18 (192p) ISBN 978-0-525-93521-6
Lesbian writer Schulman follows her well-received After Delores and People in Trouble with this insightful allegory, which explores the feminine and masculine qualities said to coexist within every personality. The novel is prefaced by a troubling...
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Sarah Schulman, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-525-93790-6
Parental abandonment is the theme of this dreary tale of gay and lesbian life on the edge in New York City. Rita Mae Weems, whose father kicked her out at the age of 16, still hears the disappointment in his voice when she phones him years later....
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Sarah Schulman, Author Bard Books $23 (273p) ISBN 978-0-380-97646-1
Set in the McCarthy era, Schulman's seventh novel (after Rat Bohemia) is a study of justice, loyalty and selling out--a scenario of how national politics and gender bias can blight a generation's talents and livelihoods. Three distinctive narrators...
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Sarah Schulman. Univ. of California, $27.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-520-26477-9
In her latest book, queer activist Schulman (Ties that Bind) argues that the AIDS epidemic that ravaged the gay community in the U.S. from 1981 to 1996 spurred the process of gentrification, "a concrete replacement process," not only in New York...
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Sarah Schulman. Feminist, $15.95 ISBN 978-1-55861-904-3
With a plot and characters inspired by Balzac’s Cousin Bette, the latest from novelist and nonfiction writer Schulman (After Delores) is intended in part as a feminist response to James Baldwin’s Another Country. Like its realist forebears, the...
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Sarah Schulman. Arsenal Pulp (Consortium, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $19.95 trade paper (300p) ISBN 978-1-55152-643-0
In this incisive, refreshing work, Schulman (The Gentrification of the Mind), a novelist, documentarian, and social critic, documents how those with power and privilege increasingly tend to conflate any challenge to their authority or ways of...
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Sarah Schulman. Feminist, $17.95 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-1-936932-39-9
Although it features a murder mystery, Schulman’s successful novel (after The Cosmopolitans) is less a whodunit and more an exploration of drug and alcohol addiction. Ex-NYPD detective Maggie Terry is just out of rehab after 15 years of alcohol and...
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Sarah Schulman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40 (736p) ISBN 978-0-374-18513-8
Novelist and AIDS activist Schulman (Maggie Terry) recounts the successes and failures of the New York chapter of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in this fine-grained history. Drawing on interviews with 188 members of ACT UP New York,...
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