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Available
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Publication
Arsenal Pulp Press (2013), Edition: Second Edition, Paperback, 176 pages
Description
Fiction. Literature. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) HTML: A new edition of Sarah Schulman's 1988 novel, about a no-nonsense coffee-shop waitress who is nursing a broken heart after her girlfriend Dolores leaves her. Her attempts to find love again are funny, sexy, and ultimately even violent. The novel is a fast-paced, electrifying chronicle of the Lower East Side's lesbian subculture in the 1980s..
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LibraryThing member corinneblackmer
I recently re-read Schulman's After Delores; after having read her more recent novel, The Child, which was finally published almost 10 years after delays caused by the "controversial" nature of the subject matter, which represented a young gay man (hence, "Child") in an incipient relationship with
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an older gay man. My opinion of After Delores is that it is atmospheric, obsessive, campy, self-ironizing but, more than all else, Schulman's effort to at once comment on the sub-genre of the lesbian detective novel, write a kind of lesbian (parodic-camp) version of D. Hammett, and see what latching these two formal-expressive-stylistic projects onto her tale of the obsession produced by failed romance, rejection, humiliation, and broken narrative lines would produce. I am not sure this is Schulman's most distinguished or interesting project. In fact, it is not. For that, one would do better to read The Child and Empathy. Show Less
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Awards
Lambda Literary Award (Nominee — 1988)
Stonewall Book Award (Winner — 1989)
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Physical description
176 p.; 7.9 inches
ISBN
1551525151 / 9781551525150