"Allen's book will... provide the categories that will deepen our understanding of lesbian relationships and of lesbian fiction." --Lesbian Review of Books

"Barnes scholars will... want to pick up Carolyn Allen's new book, for it not only offers perceptive readings of Nightwood and the "Little Girl" stories..., but traces the example of Barnes's exploration of lesbian power and loss in the fiction of Jeanette Winterson, Rebecca Brown, and the underrated Bertha Harris." --Review of Contemporary Fiction

..". fascinating... a] fine volume... " --Choice

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