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005    20231204103622.0 
008    230522s2023    nyu           000 1 eng   
010    2023000517 
020    9781668021590|qhc 
020    1668021595|qhc 
037    |bSimon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ,
       USA, 08075|nSAN 200-2442 
040    DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dSKYRV|dUtOrBLW 
082 00 [Fic]|223 
092    |fF|aBLAKLEY 
100 1  Blakley-Cartwright, Sarah,|eauthor. 
245 10 Alice Sadie Celine /|cSarah Blakley-Cartwright. 
250    First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition 2023. 
264  1 New York :|bSimon & Schuster,|c2023. 
300    258 pages ;|c18 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent. 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia. 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier. 
520    "It's opening night, but far from glamorous. Alice is 
       performing in a local Bay Area production of The Winter's 
       Tale, the complete opposite of what she had envisioned for
       her career back home in Los Angeles. She doesn't have 
       dreams of superstardom per se,but the basement theatre in 
       a wildfire-choked town simply isn't ideal. To make matters
       worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming. Pragmatic
       and serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have been 
       best friends since high school-really one another'sonly 
       friends-but now that they are through with college (which 
       they attended together) and living on opposite ends of 
       California, Alice would at least expect her friend's 
       support. Sadie, determined not to cancel her plans with 
       her boyfriend, ends up enlisting the help of her mother 
       Celine. A professor of Women's and Gender Studies at UC 
       Berkeley, Celine's landmark treatise on sex and identity 
       made her notorious, but she's struggling to write her new 
       book in a post-second-wave feminism world. When Sadie begs
       her to attend Alice's play, she relents, if only for an 
       escape from writer's block. But in a turn of events 
       perplexing even to herself, Celine becomes entranced by 
       Alice's performance and realizes that her daughter's lanky,
       slightly annoying, best friend is now an irresistible 
       young woman. Set over the course of decades-from Alice and
       Sadie's friendship's early days and Celine's decision to 
       leave her husband to the radical movements of 90s Berkeley
       and navigating contemporary Hollywood-Alice and Celine's 
       affair will test the limits of their love for Sadie and 
       their own beliefs about power, agency, and feminism. Witty
       and relatable, sexy and surprising, Sarah Blakley-
       Cartwright's debut adult novel is a mesmerizing portrait 
       of the inner lives of three very different women"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Mothers and daughters|vFiction. 
650  0 Lesbians|vFiction. 
650  0 Female friendship|vFiction. 
655  7 Lesbian fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft