Terminal Velocity

Title: Terminal Velocity
Author: Blanche McCrary Boyd
Fiction: 1705069
ISBN: 9780679750321
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 272
Section: Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Lesbian
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Publisher Description: Ferociously paced, "Terminal Velocity" delineates six wonderfully engaging characters: Artemis Foote, for whom being rich, talented, and beautiful is a kind of game; Jordan, a messianic fugitive who becomes Ellen's lover; Amethyst Woman, a Marxist/Leninist dentist; Ross, a red-diaper baby and now a columnist for Ramparts; and Pearl, an art history professor turned hippie. At the center of this vortex is Ellen, prior to her transformation happily married and a rising young editor at a genteel publishing house in Boston. Together with these women, she is caught in the political and moral tailspin of the Sixties, living in a sexualized world-without-boundaries that leads them, eventually, to destruction, acceptance, and even redemption.