Crybaby butch : a novel /

"Drawing on her experience as an adult literacy tutor, Judith Frank's first novel traces the difficult and sometimes hilarious connection between two butches of different generations - a middle-class, thirty-something adult literacy teacher and her older, working-class student. With a disp...

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Main Author: Frank, Judith, 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, MI : Firebrand Books, [2004]
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Summary:"Drawing on her experience as an adult literacy tutor, Judith Frank's first novel traces the difficult and sometimes hilarious connection between two butches of different generations - a middle-class, thirty-something adult literacy teacher and her older, working-class student. With a disparate group of adult learners as the backdrop, Frank examines, with warmth and wit, the relationship between education and gender, class, and racial identity."--PUBLISHER.
Item Description:Includes "Reader's guide : questions for discussion" (pages [420]-[421]).
Physical Description:416 pages ; 22 cm
Awards:Lambda Literary Award, 2004
ISBN:1563411431
9781563411434