{"product_id":"diana-a-strange-autobiography-9780814726327","title":"Diana: A Strange Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Diana Frederics | Julie L. Abraham\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sexuality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is the unusual and compelling story of Diana, a tantalizingly beautiful woman who sought love in the strange by-paths of Lesbos. Fearless and outspoken, it dares to reveal that hidden world where perfumed caresses and half-whispered endearments constitute the forbidden fruits in a Garden of Eden where men are never accepted.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is how \u003ci\u003eDiana: A Strange Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e was described when it was published in paperback in 1952. The original 1939 hardcover edition carried with it a Publisher's Note: \u003ci\u003eThis is the autobiography of a woman who tried to be normal.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the book, Diana is presented as the unexceptional daughter of an unexceptional plutocratic family. During adolescence, she finds herself drawn with mysterious intensity to a girl friend. The narrative follows Diana's progress through college; a trial marriage that proves she is incapable of heterosexuality; intellectual and sexual education in Europe; and a series of lesbian relationships culminating in a final tormented triangular struggle with two other women for the individual salvation to be found in a happy couple. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In her introduction, Julie Abraham argues that \u003ci\u003eDiana\u003c\/i\u003e is not really an autobiography at all, but a deliberate synthesis of different archetypes of this confessional genre, echoing, as it does, more than a half-dozen novels. Hitting all the high and low points of the lesbian novel, the book, Abraham illustrates, offers a defense of lesbian relationships that was unprecedented in 1939 and radical for decades afterwards.","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46893276168343,"sku":"9780814726327","price":11446.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780814726327.webp?v=1770315082","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/diana-a-strange-autobiography-9780814726327","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}