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RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE

Rita Mae Brown

"The rare work of fiction that has changed real life . . . If you don't yet know Molly Bolt - or Rita Mae Brown, who created her - I urge you to read and thank them both." - Gloria Steinem

Winner of the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award | Winner of the Lee Lynch Classic Book Award

A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country's most distinctive voices, Rubyfruit Jungle remains a transformative work more than forty years after its original publication. In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly finds that women are drawn to her wherever she goes - and she refuses to apologize for loving them back. This literary milestone continues to resonate with its message about being true to yourself and, against the odds, living happily ever after.

RUBINROTER DSCHUNGEL
Deutsch von Barbara Scriba-Sethe
[Pbck: Ullstein, 07/2018]

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Book Published 1980-10-01 by Bantam

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RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE is the rare work of fiction that has changed real life. Because its heroine dares to be her unique and spirited self, despite society's biases about class and sexuality, she has helped generations of readers to do the same. If you don't yet know Molly Bolt - or Rita Mae Brown who created her - I urge you to read and thank them both. --- Gloria Steinem

I found myself laughing hysterically, then sobbing uncontrollably just moments later. A powerful story ... A truly incredible book. --. Boston Globe

Molly Bolt is a genuine descendant - genuine female descendant - of Huckleberry Finn. And Rita Mae Brown is, like Mark Twain, a serious writer who gets her messages across through laughter. ---Donna E. Shalala, former Secretary of Health and Human Services

UK: Vintage Classics;

Silence is as instructive as running the mouth. When Rubyfruit Jungle was first published by Daughters, Inc., in 1973, the print run was 1,000 copies. Silence. No advertising, no reviews, not a glimmer of interest from the literary establishments. And then orders hit like an avalanche. The small company filled 70,000 orders in the first year. They estimated - from the volume of fan mail - that for every book sold, seven people had read it. (... )writes Rita Mae Brown in the preface to the reissue of RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE in June 2015 by Bantam, 42 years after the first publication of this classic. Read more.