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Book SynopsisFeaturing fictional and historical characters, this novel explores the roles women have played, from grandmother, sister and wife, to businesswoman, prostitute, warrior, artist and martyr. In this edition, Harris reintroduces her work, providing background to the milieu in which it was produced.
Trade ReviewHarris, an American equivalent of Monique Wittig, ... is ingenious, sardonic, parodic. [She] explores the various roles women have played: grandmother, mother, daughter, sister, wife and second wife, businesswoman in man's clothing, prostitute, factory worker, movie star, muse and tutelary spirit, warrior, artist, fake saint, martyr. -- Catharine R. Stimpson
The introduction [is] by turns funny, sad, moving, and outrageous...[Harris] illuminates the New York women's art and literary scene of the late sixties and seventies; the introduction alone is worth the price of the book. Altogether,
Lover is everything a seduction should be: smart, unpredictable, witty, provocative—and sexy. -- Carolyn Allen, University of Washington
Violent, funny, beautiful, intelligent. -- Jane Rule
Bertha Harris has created a woman's world as relaxed and sisterly and funny as Didion's is tense and controlled. [She] presents a utopian vision of a world where women are in charge of themselves, and where, it is nice to note, they are very good company indeed. * The New York Review of Books *
A wonder...I was seduced by its tantalizing elusiveness, its audacity, its sheer brio...a spellbinding, verbal sleight of hand as satisfying as it is serpentine. * The Washington Post Book World *
