TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mackenzie,Compton
TI  - Extraordinary women: : theme and variations
SN  - 0701210176
U1  - 823.912 
PY  - 1986///
CY  - London
PB  - Hogarth Press
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Gay fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - The island of Capri, in the early twentieth-century, was a remarkably tolerant place providing a haven in particular for those with the sort of sexual appetites that were banned elsewhere. Homosexuals, both male and female, retreated to Capri and many were to find themselves appearing in fictional guise in Compton Mackenzie's two novels. Narrative drive is not what you will find here, instead there is delicious and wicked social comedy that exuberantly charts the endless feuds and machinations
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