Love & Virtue
- Authors
- Diana Reid
- Publisher
- Ultimo Press
- Date
- 2021-08-05T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.36 MB
- Lang
- en
Feminism, power and sex play out through the eyes of young Australian uni students in a contemporary narrative that is fiercely authenticWhenever I say I was at university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps that she could have always been as whole and self-assured as she now appears. To which I say something like: 'People are infinitely complex.' But I say it in such a wayso pregnant with misanthropythat it's obvious I hate her. Michaela and Eve are two bright, bold women who befriend each other their first year at a residential college at university, where they live in adjacent rooms. They could not be more different; one assured and popular the other uncertain and eager-to-please. But something happens one night in O-week a drunken encounter, a foggy memory that will force them to confront the realities of consent and wrestle with the dynamics of power....