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Mortal softness.

Publication: Lambda Book Report
Publication Date: 01-NOV-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Mortal softness.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Venus of Chalk

By Susan Stinson

Firebrand Books

ISBN 1563411377

PB, $14.95, 206 pp.

Susan Stinson's third novel, Venus of Chalk, introduces readers to a most unlikely heroine: Carline is a home economist by trade, a shy and unassuming woman living in an unnamed small city somewhere in the Northeast. She's a physically large woman, but in other ways Carline's stature seems small almost to the point of invisible; you get the feeling she doesn't take up much space in the world. As her lover Lilian describes her early on: "... Carline gets missed. She puts on one of her pantsuits in a durable fabric and becomes a fat woman waiting for the bus, a woman whose inner life is...

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