Tipping the velvet / Sarah Waters.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Riverhead Books, 2000.Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. edDescription: 472 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1573227889
- 9781573227889
- Lambda Literary Award, 1999
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Waters Sarah | Available | 33111007506799 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Erotic and absorbing...Written with startling power."-- The New York Times Book Review
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they begin a glittering career as music-hall stars in an all-singing and dancing double act. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins.
Nancy Astley, a fishmonger in Whitstable, becomes smitten by male impersonator Kitty Butler and attends shows until the star notices her, which leads to the two becoming partners in romance and performance until societal pressures drive the two into situations that embrace the ambiguity of sexual preference and gender roles.
Lambda Literary Award, 1999