· Berkeley author Lucy Jane Bledsoe shows the sexy side of the s in her new novel, “A Thin Bright Line,” based on the true story of her lesbian aunt, Lucybelle Bledsoe, for Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. "Bledsoe’s novel is an absolute wonder. Combining a McCullers-like facility in letting her settings tell half the story with characterization and dialogue worthy of Harper Lee." —New York Journal of Books "Berkeley author Lucy Jane Bledsoe shows the sexy side of the s in her new novel, A Thin Bright Line." —San Francisco Chronicle. · So our joy from triumphs in a courtroom or our screams of anger at yet another act of violence exist in a context. With this knowledge of the past, our responses become can become even richer, more poignant, and fierce. A Thin Bright Line. By Lucy Jane Bledsoe. University of Reviews: 2.
A Thin Bright Line Lucy Jane Bledsoe. Univ. of Wisconsin, $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Sweat: Stories and a Novella; Biting the Apple. Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. A Thin Bright www.doorway.rusity of Wisconsin Press, HC. $ ISBN In , Lucy Jane Bledsoe wrote one of my all-time favorite novels, Working Parts, so I was delighted for the chance to read her latest book, a unique foray into historical www.doorway.ru some ways, the backstory involved in this novel's creation is almost as interesting as the text itself. Lucy Jane Bledsoe is an award-winning science writer and novelist for adults and children. Her many books include The Ice Cave: A Thin Bright Line reminds us that we are nothing, deep down, without love and dignity."—Patrick Ryan, author of The Dream Life of Astronauts.
“A Thin Bright Line” was a huge labor of love, doing the vast research to find out what she could about her deceased aunt, Lucybelle Bledsoe, and then writing an exceedingly well imagined and wrought novel about Lucybelle and her era, her intelligence, her loves, her dedication to climate research at a time when hardly anyone knew this work had just begun. Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. A Thin Bright Line. University of Wisconsin Press, HC. $ ISBN In , Lucy Jane Bledsoe wrote one of my all-time favorite novels, Working Parts, so I was delighted for the chance to read her latest book, a unique foray into historical fiction. In some ways, the backstory involved in this novel’s creation is almost as interesting as the text itself. A Thin Bright Line is a lovely homage to the queer women who bravely navigated their careers, families, social circles by hiding (or not) their desires, their lovers, and often having to sacrifice something in the bargain. It's an homage to a little-known aunt, the author's namesake, who seemed to lived two lives: the one her family saw and/or wanted to believe and the one she actually lived, fictionalized here.
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