Rubyfruit Jungle

Informationen zum Autor Rita Mae Brown Klappentext "The rare work of fiction that has changed real life . . . If you don't yet know Molly Bolt-or Rita Mae Brown, who created her-I urge you to read and thank them both."-Gloria Steinem Winner of the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award | Winner of the Lee Lynch Classic Book Award A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country's most distinctive voices, Rubyfruit Jungle remains a transformative work more than forty years after its original publication. In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly finds that women are drawn to her wherever she goes-and she refuses to apologize for loving them back. This literary milestone continues to resonate with its message about being true to yourself and, against the odds, living happily ever after. Praise for Rubyfruit Jungle "Groundbreaking."-The New York Times "Powerful . . . a truly incredible book . . . I found myself laughing hysterically, then sobbing uncontrollably just moments later."-The Boston Globe "You can't fully know-or enjoy-how much the world has changed without reading this truly wonderful book."-Andrew Tobias, author of The Best Little Boy in the World "A crass and hilarious slice of growing up 'different,' as fun to read today as it was in 1973."-The Rumpus "Molly Bolt is a genuine descendant-genuine female descendant-of Huckleberry Finn. And Rita Mae Brown is, like Mark Twain, a serious writer who gets her messages across through laughter."-Donna E. Shalala "A trailblazing literary coup at publication . . . It was the right book at the right time."-Lee Lynch, author of Beggar of Love

Autorentext

Rita Mae Brown

Klappentext

"The rare work of fiction that has changed real life . . . If you don't yet know Molly Bolt-or Rita Mae Brown, who created her-I urge you to read and thank them both."-Gloria Steinem

Winner of the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award | Winner of the Lee Lynch Classic Book Award

A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country's most distinctive voices, Rubyfruit Jungle remains a transformative work more than forty years after its original publication. In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly finds that women are drawn to her wherever she goes-and she refuses to apologize for loving them back. This literary milestone continues to resonate with its message about being true to yourself and, against the odds, living happily ever after.

Praise for Rubyfruit Jungle

"Groundbreaking."-The New York Times

"Powerful . . . a truly incredible book . . . I found myself laughing hysterically, then sobbing uncontrollably just moments later."-The Boston Globe

"You can't fully know-or enjoy-how much the world has changed without reading this truly wonderful book."-Andrew Tobias, author of The Best Little Boy in the World

"A crass and hilarious slice of growing up 'different,' as fun to read today as it was in 1973."-The Rumpus

"Molly Bolt is a genuine descendant-genuine female descendant-of Huckleberry Finn. And Rita Mae Brown is, like Mark Twain, a serious writer who gets her messages across through laughter."-Donna E. Shalala

"A trailblazing literary coup at publication . . . It was the right book at the right time."-Lee Lynch, author of Beggar of Love

Zusammenfassung
The rare work of fiction that has changed real life . . . Because its heroine dares to be her unique and spirited self, despite society s biases about class and sexuality, Rubyfruit Jungle has helped generations of readers to do the same. If you don t yet know Molly Bolt or Rita Mae Brown, who created her I urge you to read and thank them both. Gloria Steinem

Groundbreaking. The New York Times

Powerful . . . a truly incredible book . . . I found myself laughing hysterically, then sobbing uncontrollably just moments later. The Boston Globe

You can t fully know or enjoy how much the world has changed without reading this truly wonderful book. Andrew Tobias, author of The Best Little Boy in the World

A crass and hilarious slice of growing up different, as fun to read today as it was in 1973. The Rumpus

Molly Bolt is a genuine descendant genuine female descendant of Huckleberry Finn. And Rita Mae Brown is, like Mark Twain, a serious writer who gets her messages across through laughter. Donna E. Shalala

A trailblazing literary coup at publication . . . It was the right book at the right time. Lee Lynch, author of Beggar of Love

Leseprobe
No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.

I didn't know anything about my own beginnings until I was seven years old, living in Coffee Hollow, a rural dot outside of York, Pennsylvania. A dirt road connected tarpapered houses filled with smear-faced kids and the air was always thick with the smell of coffee beans freshly ground in the small shop that gave the place its name. One of those smear-faced kids was Brockhurst Detwiler, Broccoli for short. It was through him that I learned I was a bastard. Broccoli didn't know I was a bastard but he and I struck a bargain that cost me my ignorance.

One crisp September day Broccoli and I were on our way home from Violet Hill Elementary School.

"Hey, Molly, I gotta take a leak, wanna see me?.

"Sure, Broc."

He stepped behind the bushes and pulled down his zipper with a flourish.

"Broccoli, what's all that skin hanging around your dick?"

"My mom says I haven't had it cut up yet."

"Whaddaya mean, cut up?"

"She says that some people get this operation and the skin comes off and it has somethin' to do with Jesus."

"Well, I'm glad no one's gonna cut up on me."

"That's what you think. My Aunt Louise got her tit cut off."

"I ain't got tits."

"You will. You'll get big floppy ones just like my mom. They hang down below her waist and wobble when she walks."

"Not me, I ain't gonna look like that."

"Oh yes you are. All girls look like that."

"You shut up or I'll knock your lips down your throat, Broccoli Detwiler."

"I'll shut up if you don't tel1 anyone I showed you my thing."

"What's there to tell? All you got is a wad of pink wrinkles hangin' around it. It's ugly."

"It is not ugly."

"Ha. It looks awful. You think it's not ugly because it's yours. No one else has a dick like that. My cousin Leroy, Ted, no one. I bet you got the only one in the world. We oughta make some money off it."

"Money? How we gonna make money off my dick?"

"After school we can take the kids back here and show you off, and we charge a nickel a piece."

"No. I ain't showing people my thing if they're gonna laugh at it."

"Look, Broc, money is money. What do you care if they laugh? You'll have money then you can laugh at them. And we split it fifty-fifty."

The next day during recess I spread the news. Broccoli was keeping his mouth shut. I was afraid he'd chicken out but he came through. After school about eleven of us hurri…