Odd Girl

Many loves... Many Paths!Anne's feelings for Beth might have passed for a schoolgirl crush. But schoolgirls don't do what Anne wanted to do-and Beth seemed all too willing.Yet Anne, trying to stem the dark demands of her nature, married handsome, virile Mark. When Mark learned where his lovely wife's true passions lay, his love turned to hate-warped by an excitement which aroused within him a raging lust. And when this passion possessed him, Anne would think of other things... and other people, like... the fun and exhilarating Skippy, a butch and handsome young girl who lived life to the hilt... the fascinating and mysterious dark-eyed and lovely Esther, herself tortured by memories of an agonizing past. And then there was Pru, somehow content with her strange desires-and ready to share her happiness with Anne.Caught between the perverted beastliness of a wounded male, and the softness of women who offer her their love, which path would Anne choose?Another great classic lesbian pulp novel-and one that defied the pulp industry's common practice of forcing writers to torment their lesbian characters with devastating consequences of their love! Artemis Smith has written a beautiful and well-crafted story that wonderfully portrays the experience of a young lesbian making her way in New York's Greenwich Village during the 1950s. In Odd Girl, it's easy to see why Barbara Grier, and many others, considered Artemis Smith to be one of the most pro-lesbian authors of her time!About Lesbian Pulp Fiction: In the early 1950s new sub-genres of the vintage paperback pulp novel industry emerged-science fiction, juvenile delinquent, sleaze, and lesbian fiction, for instance-that would tantalize readers with gritty, realistic and lurid stories never seen before. Mysteries, thrillers and hardboiled detective pulps were already selling quite well. Publishers had come to realize, however, that sex would sell even more copies. In a competitive frenzy for readers, they tossed away their staid and straightforward cover images for alluring covers that frequently featured a sexy woman in some form of undress, along with a suggestive tag line that promised stories of sex and violence within the covers. Before long, books with these sensational covers had completely taken over the paperback racks and cash registers. To this day, the "good girl art" (GGA) cover art of these vintage paperback books are just as sought after as the books themselves were sixty years ago. With the birth of the lesbian-themed pulp novel, women who loved women would finally see themselves-their experiences and their lives-represented within the pages of a book. They finally had a literature they could call their own. For lesbians across the country, especially those living in small towns, these books provided a sense of community they never knew existed, a connection to women who experienced the same longings, feelings and fears as they did-the powerful knowledge that they were not alone. We are excited to make these lesbian pulp novels available in ebook format to new generations of readers.